Once an archaeologist, always an archaeologist

What seemed like all the archaeologists in America were in town last week at the 127th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies...

At the Bryn Mawr College lunch I caught up with my classmate-now-Etruscan expert Alexandra Carpino (don't miss the big Etruscan exhibit coming to the Legion of Honor in May 2026!) and our Aegean Bronze Age professor Jim Wright who recently led the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and even in retirement continues his ongoing project in Crete...

TBT, the Istanbul Indie Film Festival #10

Another life, another networked world!

This came in the mail today. It's from the major faculty of my liberal arts college, an event for my professor of Bronze Age Archaeology, Jim Wright. He was a great teacher, as I recall!

Also, it's a reminder of the solidity of liberal arts education. This classically-based education was meant to turn out a person who was "virtuous and ethical, knowledgeable in many fields and highly articulate." It doesn't matter what you do with it, you're equipped as a well-rounded individual.

Today's email and its particular Bronze Age lens on power and place is so far from where I am right this minute, and yet I am back in class in an instant, to when civilizations around the Aegean first established a far-ranging trade network and all together moved out of the Stone Age.

Then I'm back again, to today, back to looking at the future of stories for millennial audiences as a business, tech, and entertainment issue. That's a focus of mine right now and based here in California's own power centers of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Hope all my Bryn Mawr archaeology peers have a fun symposium!