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Tag Archives: fieldwork
One last shot from Almaty…
Fieldwork is done for the time being, the only tasks that remain are gift shopping, packing and departing. Prof. Zhaken Taimagambetov (Al-Farabi Kazakhstan National University) was a wonderful host during my stay.
Back from the Charyn Canyon
Made it back into Almaty after two days in the Charyn Canyon region of Kazakhstan. We were able to re-identify a few Paleolithic scatters first identified by Russian archaeologists in the 1980s. I found a fossil bovid tooth, but sadly, … Continue reading
The hardest part about being in the field
There are many many wonderful things about doing paleoanthropological fieldwork. I spent most of the past week doing survey work in a beautiful, though vast, section of South-Central Kazakhstan. I can certainly think of worse things to do then spend … Continue reading
Greetings from Kazakhstan!
I am very briefly back in Almaty after a successful week at the Paleolithic site of Valikhanova, in South Central Kazakhstan. While I was away, the announcement of my Fall course, Anthro 207x – Introduction to Human Evolution, done in … Continue reading
Gone Diggin’
I will be out of the country on an initial field foray to Kazakhstan for the next several weeks. A few posts will be showing up during that time, maybe more than a few depending on the degree of internet … Continue reading
What I am reading today (5/15/13)
Finishing up the semester’s grading and preparing to leave for a little bit of fieldwork, but here is what I am trying to read today: Let’s Abandon Significance Tests – Jim Wood (The Mermaid’s Tale) But now suppose we’ve learned … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils
Tagged #safe13, dental wear, edentulous, fieldwork, hunting, mandible, Oldowan, scavenging, subsistence
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Field research experience web survey
From colleague Julienne Rutherford: Dear Colleagues, Kate Clancy, Robin Nelson, Katie Hinde, and I are conducting a survey to learn about people’s experiences conducting field research, including some topics that are less often addressed. At this juncture we have >400 … Continue reading
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Tagged #safe13, fieldwork, sexual harrasment
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The most important research presented at the AAPA meetings
And the most depressing. So then we looked at the rate at which women and men experience sexual harassment and assault. 59% of our sample reported it, with women having a three times greater risk than men. 19% of our … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology
Tagged fieldwork
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Biological Anthropology fieldwork experiences
I have linked previously to Kate Clancy’s discussion of sexual harassment and field work in anthropology. This is an important, though often unspoken, issue within anthropology. Particularly for those subfields that have group, field-site focused research, “the field” is a … Continue reading
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My life on the web: peer review, conferences and work abroad
By coincidence, my current to-do list is finding itself replicated in other people’s blog posts today. First, Bonnie Swoger, writing for Scientific American, sings the praises of the peer review system. This is why peer review has become the standard … Continue reading
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Tagged academic conference, fieldwork, peer review
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