To all involved with the ASAS conference, thank you. I think it was a great success and that all papers presented have potential to be published. I was a little scared at the start of the session when there were only three people there (sorry Mike), but we made it through.
Thanks to all those who contributed to the session, I hope it pads the CV nicely.
Special mention to Mike Searcy for driving 16 hours to Tucson and Mr. Yoder for starting his day off at 3:30 am and ending it (hopefully alive) in Vegas much later that evening. Also, props to Beau Schreiver for enduring his first Clarktastic Crucifixion.
It was good to see you guys.
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I made it home alive! Took me until 2:00am though because of heavy showers and small roads. I echo Aaron, good papers and great company.
My favorite selfdepreciating Clark remark, "Why should your department chair give you $7000.00 to pound a hole in a sandstone cliff." Classic Clark.
First off, large congrats to all of you, but to the few of us who haven't heard details about how things went down there, could we get a little Conference In Review going? I'd love to hear the final conclusions you guys came to on your various projects, etc.
Help my out of the OPA circleness!
As far as a summary of the conference itself, that probably won't happen, because we really didn't attend other sessions. Mike and I sat in a boring session about Teotihuacan, then some of us ate lunch, talked about stuff, presented our papers, then all of us ate dinner, and talked about more stuff.
If others are willing, I think that paper summaries can be provided.
For my part, I spoke on the importance of ancinet technology courses and how they groom future analysts by exposing them to various data sets. I also discussed the importance of "reverse engineering" to help students visualize the production process. General tips were shared about time restraints, teaching techniques, and lessons leard from last year's course.
In summary, rabbitskin robes are very warm, granaries can be built quickly (day or two) so they don't necessarily indicate high investment, and more undergrads and grads should design their own experimental arch projects. How's that for an abstract! If only it was always that easy.
Nice, Dave. No joke!
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