Home from SEAC. As always, a great time catching up with friends/colleagues and hearing about cool research. I visited Avery Island yesterday to see cool fields of pepper plants, a 2500 year old mound (that’s what we are standing on here), & the site of a project that a friend did 25 years ago.

We gave a lightning talk yesterday about the 2025 Spiro field school at Fresh from the Field: OU Archaeologists Share Their Stuff. Many of the archys on campus get together and give 5 minute presentations on summer projects. We had a great turnout! And I spy a bunch of our students in this photo…

31 hours of travel yesterday to get home from Italy. Worth it. Fun trip, cool archaeology, and good people. But it is nice to see my yard tonight after 7 straight weeks in the field spread across 2 continents!

Arrividerci, Ficulle!

Time lapse of my trench at Spiro Mounds yesterday #archaeology

Got to do a little bit of magnetic susceptibility at Spiro today

This was a nice surprise. This was my 17th season as the team’s faculty advisor #boomersooner

Did a quick magnetic susceptibility survey last week

It may be a new semester with new students, but the lab analysis for our Spiro Mounds project is still marching along

Baleful schnauzer and his gross pig. I feel you, Otto

If you don’t have one of these get one. I ordered some on a whim a couple of months ago. Had a massive grease fire in my smoker today and this put it out in about a minute. But I salvaged the meat! 😂

Today was a brew day (coffee stout). Apparently I walked 2 miles around my garage in the process 😂🍻 #homebrew

Nice view from our Air B&B in southeast Oklahoma tonight. Quick geophysical survey tomorrow #archaeology

2 19-pound turkeys going in the smoker in the morning. Just finished an ocean of brine 😂🍻

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Heading back for season 5 this summer!

You know you are a grown up Spiro Mounds researcher when Jim Brown starts sending you his papers

My lab students use these little notes to remind themselves of what their piles of rocks are before I check them. Found this one today (sadly with no rock next to it). RS =Reeds Spring, a type of Ozark chert with a lot of variation #archaeology 😂

More appropriate than ever these days

First post? Guess it should be a pic of a sherd. Crockett Curvilinear Incised rim from Spiro Mounds.