it’s a real pleasure to see scholarship guided by transdisciplinary experimental frameworks that crosscut the things that really matter.
archaeology often leads to places resplendent in silence, places that are more often forgotten than not. places that, usually through the window of a fast-traveling automobile, are permanently distant - and forever reinvented - in the background of our modern lives.
this time it was a literal key to padlocked ranch gates and a hidden valley. two days spent surveying solo on the lands of the historic j six ranch in cochise country was time well spent.
home for the holidays. scrambling up granite, dog eventually gets a free lift in the backpack from tilldo. just a beautiful day - this is why arizona in the winter is a trap. except for that gust of wind up there as we posed.