The published history of a set of silver and gold objects acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1975 contains an unusual reference to a gold coin, supposedly found with the set but not purchased by the museum. The coin, which is both rare and well dated, ostensibly offers a date and location for the ancient deposition of the silver service.…[Read more]

This piece is a response to Colleen Morgan’s Truth and Beauty Bombs: The personal/political/poetics of online communication in #archaeology. Morgan’s piece was a cri-de-coeur, for the web we lost, a manifesto for something better.

This is a preprint of the introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology edited by David K. Pettegrew and William Caraher.

A syllabus for the core course in the MA Digital Humanities at Carleton University, Fall 2017, led by Shawn Graham.

This paper focuses on potential instances of indirect labor mobilization at Pylos, in which workers are retained for palatial projects, but through the agency of named individuals. I will attempt to show that in some cases the palaces supplemented directly-acquired labor with labor obtained through administrative intermediaries, high-level…[Read more]

A short note on a 2012 find from Göbekli Tepe – a seated figurine with an animal on its shoulder.