Today was the last day in the lab this semester. Our students analyzed 800 ceramic sherds, 5500 pieces of daub, 3600 pieces of fire-cracked rock, 300 groundstone tool frags, and a whopping 16,160 pieces of lithic debitage. That’s nearly 1/2 of what we found last summer. Thanks for your hard work!
WELCOME TO THE DAY OF MANY CALORIES
YOU SHALL CONSUME
YOU SHALL INGEST
YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO
BUT WAIT
THERE'S STILL PIE
The Eagles having Barkley, Dotson, and Hurts have made me do the unthinkable and root for a Philly team for more than one game (in situations that would benefit a Pittsburgh team) 😂
Home from SEAC. As always, a great time catching up with friends/colleagues and hearing about cool research. I visited Avery Island yesterday to see cool fields of pepper plants, a 2500 year old mound (that’s what we are standing on here), & the site of a project that a friend did 25 years ago.
I’m only peripherally involved in this project these days, but I am glad the City of Tulsa is still supporting this important work. It’s probably the most socially meaningful archaeological project that I will ever have worked on
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RIP, Gary. You were kind, intelligent, supportive, and dedicated to the history of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes. I’m glad that I had the privilege of knowing you.
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We gave a lightning talk yesterday about the 2025 Spiro field school at Fresh from the Field: OU Archaeologists Share Their Stuff. Many of the archys on campus get together and give 5 minute presentations on summer projects. We had a great turnout! And I spy a bunch of our students in this photo…
31 hours of travel yesterday to get home from Italy. Worth it. Fun trip, cool archaeology, and good people. But it is nice to see my yard tonight after 7 straight weeks in the field spread across 2 continents!
Arrividerci, Ficulle!
Field season at Spiro is officially wrapped up for the year. Now I will enjoy my 2 days off before heading to Italy to meet up with the OU Classics field school. I’m tired enough that I might actually be able to sleep on the plane! 🤞
Time lapse of my trench at Spiro Mounds yesterday #archaeology
Got to do a little bit of magnetic susceptibility at Spiro today
This was a nice surprise. This was my 17th season as the team’s faculty advisor #boomersooner
Did a quick magnetic susceptibility survey last week
Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.
That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
It may be a new semester with new students, but the lab analysis for our Spiro Mounds project is still marching along
Baleful schnauzer and his gross pig. I feel you, Otto
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
Beer lovers can raise a glass while honoring our nation’s 39th president.
Jimmy Carter is a huge reason America’s craft beer scene is thriving today. trib.al/2aC133A
If you don’t have one of these get one. I ordered some on a whim a couple of months ago. Had a massive grease fire in my smoker today and this put it out in about a minute. But I salvaged the meat! 😂
Today was a brew day (coffee stout). Apparently I walked 2 miles around my garage in the process 😂🍻 #homebrew
Nice view from our Air B&B in southeast Oklahoma tonight. Quick geophysical survey tomorrow #archaeology
Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress.
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
2 19-pound turkeys going in the smoker in the morning. Just finished an ocean of brine 😂🍻
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Heading back for season 5 this summer!
You know you are a grown up Spiro Mounds researcher when Jim Brown starts sending you his papers
My lab students use these little notes to remind themselves of what their piles of rocks are before I check them. Found this one today (sadly with no rock next to it). RS =Reeds Spring, a type of Ozark chert with a lot of variation #archaeology 😂
More appropriate than ever these days
This @vandoliers.bsky.social song has kept me going since the election
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