Am I an Activist?
By Lewis Borck Am I an activist? Sure, but aren’t we all? I have been told that I don’t do real archaeology. That I’m an activist instead of an archaeologist. After job searches where I wasn’t hired, I heard that the committees were concerned with what I would do on campus. I’ve had a university […]
The Man. The Myth. The Legend. Don Henry.
On March 15, 2023, the archaeological world dimmed with the passing of Don Henry. Tributes have poured forth since then, many focusing on Don’s incredible contributions to Jordanian archaeology. While these are all true, Don was also highly active on the Southern Plains of North America. It is hard to find any area in Oklahoma […]
Anthropology of the Future (and the Past)
In the 1990s, Star Trek: Voyager inspired me to think about a Native man’s place in the future and to consider what my role might be as an Indigenous scientist. Voyager’s Commander Chakotay was perhaps one of the few times a Native American was spotted in the future and the first time I had ever […]
Public Archaeology, History, and Life at Concord Quarters
Public archaeology is not an accessible area of archaeology to define, but for this article, I define it as the use of multiple perspectives and voices among professionals, the public, and descendant communities to better understand the past. In this way, archaeological professionals are no longer the harbingers of all knowledge, and archaeology becomes more […]