Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology: Steampunk Academia

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Comment by Leslie Orton on October 30, 2014 at 4:19pm

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Comment by Philip Allan Brian Drew on July 16, 2014 at 11:20am

I hope you do not object to me joining, as I did some industrial archaeology many years ago. It was of a steam nature - I helped excavate Foster & Rastrick, who were responsible for the Stourbridge Lion, the first steam train to run in the United States.

Comment by T. Patrick Snyder on September 30, 2013 at 2:28pm

Nice, we also did some work up in the Chaco Canyon area towards the end of our field school.

Comment by Jonathan Brewster on June 3, 2013 at 6:42pm

Nice place! I'm digging in the Caddo culture area at the moment. I found an interesting feature, a large piece of petrified wood directly beneath a charcoal concentration. I'm thinking they were trying to heat-treat it to improve the knappability of the material. I'm continually fascinated at how people adapt to differences in resource types...

Comment by T. Patrick Snyder on June 3, 2013 at 4:46pm

I'm currently in a field school at the Blackwater draw site, which is where the famous Clovis points were first found.

Comment by Jonathan Brewster on November 27, 2012 at 7:01am

Academic is waay more interesting as I'm sure you're aware. If you end up doing some CRM work, you're in a good area. You know about shovelbums and archaeologyfieldwork.com?

I'll shut up about modern archaeology now :)

Comment by T. Patrick Snyder on November 26, 2012 at 7:10pm

I want to do more academic stuff, but I may want to do CRM work after I finish my Masters so as to not be so in debt when I get my doctoral degree.

Comment by Jonathan Brewster on November 26, 2012 at 6:29am

Nice, there's some spectacular stuff out there. My adviser went to U-Ariz and did a lot of work there. I applied for a couple of jobs out that way but got stuck in the "need experience to find work/need work to get experience" situation. Are you doing academic or CRM archeo?

Comment by T. Patrick Snyder on November 25, 2012 at 4:34pm

Yeah, it seems like a natural topic for archaeologists.  I'm currently working on my Master's in the Southwest myself.

Comment by Jonathan Brewster on October 12, 2012 at 5:24am

Hello! I wondered if there were any of us interested in steam. I'm an archaeologist, wrote my thesis on Maya society but I've ended up doing a lot of historic and industrial archaeology in the American Midwest.