Blatant Thesis/Dissertation Promotion Opp.

Just a little opportunity to promote your hard work! This page is an in-progress annotated bibliography of theses and dissertations that utilized or emphasized public archaeology. Since many of your theses, like mine, utilized public archaeology in a very real since thanks to hours of volunteer work in the field, I thought I'd pass it on so that I'm not the only BYU alum to make the list.

Granted...I was sorely tempted to keep it secret in the hopes that it'd result in more etd hits on my lowly historic treatise. Or am I the only one arrogantly watching the count periodically?!

I just emailed the compiler and she basically asked me to put similar researchers in touch with her--it's not just for those with "public archaeology" in the title. I'm working on my shortened abstract, emphasizing the volunteer work that went into gathering the data for my research. A whole bunch of us have pulled our work from similar sources, particularly since North Creek has dragged in bunches of folks and Dr J has really used it as an opportunity to get USAS out there, hands-on with the students. Thank goodness for all their hours hauling buckets, eh?

Anyway, just passing this along to all of you, in case it's of interest.

FoF on FB

Many of you will receive a Facebook invite to join the official FoF Facebook group. I thought that since many of us are on Facebook, we could have something over there as well. I think we need to maintain this blog, but the photo album capabilities of Facebook impress me more than those of blogger.

It'd be cool to see some great Fremont photos and figures posted to the group since the majority of us have had to, at one time or another, generate Fremont-related images.

Also, Facebook may have a longer reach than our little blog.

This is also a way that we can invite mucky-mucks like JCJ and others. This way they don't have to read the blog.

Just a thought. Join up! or don't. Whatever.

USAS 2009: Fremont on the Fringe

Greetings from USAS,

So I know you guys don't traditionally go in for USAS Convention (June 5-7), but this year's in Ogden and will be fully focused on the Fremont. They're bringing in a good handful of big (to biggish) names:

• Steve Simms(Keynote)--Great Salt Lake Fremont
• Joel Janetski (Keynote)--The Promontory Question
• Shawn Carlyle--DNA and Fremont Origins
• Craig Smith--Fremont in SW Wyoming
• Brooke Arkush--Fremont in Idaho

There's no kitchy workshops this year--just professional presentations by the big names. This is being organized by Mark Stuart who was just recognized by UPAC for his outstanding work in Utah archaeology.

The other great news about this year's convention is that registration is only $10 at the door, and they're looking to keep the banquet before/during Joel's presentation to under $20.

On a side note, Arkush is in talks with the Forest Service to bring field school out to Vernon to test the adobe and figurine sites, which may prove interesting...we're just trying to get him funded.

Anyway, if you're interested, drop me an email or just look on utaharchaeology.org for registration. The website should have them up by the end of March. We only have a few more chances to see ol' Joel in action before he high-tails it to the salmon runs, so come up for Saturday night if nothing else. (And I can't believe I'm plugging for him, but if you don't have Simms' book yet, he'll have copies for less than retail)

A couple of template changes

Hey all,

I made a few changes to the blog template after noticing that a few FoF theses are not listed in the publications section.

I added the work of Molly Hall, Cady Jardine and Holly Raymond-Hughes.
Not that Holly's counts, at least Mike's is New World.

I also included a brief description of the thesis topics.

I removed links to the articles on rabbit skin robes and Watkins' condensed thesis, because those links (formerly hosted by OU bandwidth) were dead.

Let me know what you all think, I'm hardly a wizard in HTML so if you want to make any changes, go ahead.