We got all moved in in the last week and I've checked out campus a bit. Besides it being hot, I have an office in a brand new building, which is nice. And the campus in general has a lot of goodies for graduate students, lounges, computer labs, discounts, etc. So that's cool. I met with my professors this week to see what responsibilities I'll have. I'm the GA for two professors. One's a soco but the other is Karen Harry (apparently a minor ceramic goddess or something). You know those ceramists. Next semester I get switched over to being a GA for my advisor, Barbra Roth.
So my thesis defense is schedualed for Sept 19th at 11:00am if anyone is interested. It should be fun to watch me get crucified by Clark. Who knows. So Chris, what did your committee have to say to you? Going to be going to the publishers soon? Ya done good by the way. Well, I'm way to dry, need to get back outside so I can work up a sweat again. Oh, did you guys hear about the dates for the pithouse at North Creek? 9000BP! Sweet. I hear a dissertation calling.....
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Today in my Hohokam archaeology class I challenged Dave Abbott, Glen Rice, and Kathy Henderson (a veritable trinity of Hohokam archaeology) when they argued that craft specialization was NOT based on agricultural marginality. My source? Karen Harry.
Their response? They SCOFFED!! WTF?! I still thought it was a pretty good article, but there are apparently a bunch of cases of specialization in shell ornament production down here in the crap areas.
I'm starting to think that specialization may be driven by economic marginality when productive land is scarce (i.e. the Hohokam Sedentary period and up), but that other factors such as ritual importance (Spielmann) and differential resource distribution (Allison 2000) are drivers when land is not scarce.
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