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June 18, 2015

Elementary school students dig archaeology | Cornell Chronicle The week of June 15-19, professors Adam T Smith, anthropology, and Lori Khatchadourian, Near Eastern studies,...

June 10, 2015

Having just supervised my third year of admissions into the MA program in Cornell's Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, I've come to see the process as increasingly...

June 10, 2015

Lance Collins provides an articulate defense of the social sciences as seen from an engineer's perspective in this Washington Post op-ed: Why social sciences are just as...

March 7, 2015

A version of the following op-ed appeared yesterday in the Wall Street Journal's Think Tank section of the Washington Wire  I am posting the slightly longer version of the piece...

August 1, 2014

After a fieldwork hiatus, I'm belatedly reposting an op-ed from Fox News (!) by my colleague Sturt Manning The piece provides a succinct warning that a failure of a society...

March 31, 2014

In a much awaited decision,  US District Judge Robert Gettleman last week provided a summary judgment on a case that threatened to force the Oriental Institute at the...

March 19, 2014

Caucasus Connections, a conference sponsored by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus, will be held April 4-5, 2014 at Indiana University, Bloomington in...

March 16, 2014

A great post from Project ArAGATS member Elizabeth Fagan's blog regarding US Ambassador to Armenia Heffern's recent TedX Yerevan talk: In 2013, the United States Ambassador to...

March 14, 2014

To read dispatches from the ongoing geopolitical conflict occasioned by the revolution in Kiev and Russian military intervention in Crimea, one might understandably think that...

November 22, 2013

Following in the heels of the recent flap over archaeology funding at the NSF, my colleague Chris Monroe pointed out yet another arena where the US government is failing the cause...

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