The Author

Hello, my name is Beth and I am an archaeologist.
I enrolled in an archaeological field school in the summer of 2006, and have been doing archaeology ever since. In 2008 I graduated with a Bachelors degree in Anthropology, with an Archaeology concentration and a minor in Public History. I am currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Archaeology. Over the past eight years I have worked from central Nevada, throughout Oregon and Washington, and lately in British Columbia. My work has included wonderful things like finding a Clovis point in the Great Basin region of eastern Oregon, recording gold mining and ranching sites in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon, excavating a waterlogged acorn basket from a tributary of the Columbia River, and recording shell middens on the Discover Islands of British Columbia. I love maps, plants, adventure, and the feeling that I have preserved a little piece of our invaluable human experience.

This blog is intended to be a chronicle of my average and extraordinarily good or bad days as an archaeologist. These may be work days in the field, they may be about graduate student life, or the archaeology I like to do in my spare time. I’m not sure who my intended audience is, but I wish I could see more blogs speaking practically about archaeology, so I’m giving it a shot.