Archaeologies log with mannequins in pickup rtuck

As with almost every website, a work in progress!

Why Archaeologies?

Core archaeology topics

Bloggish ramblings

Projects

Biographical Information

What to expect on this web site

1. Discussions on a wide range of archaeological topics, from relatively simple to more complex than many will like
2. Archaeological projects of various kinds with which my colleagues and I have been involved and which  relate to the topics above
3. Biographical information beyond this brief statement:
I am a professional archaeologist and have worked on a wide range of archaeological sites in the United States and Mexico, and have association with projects in England, Australia, and Canada. I got into archaeology collecting artifacts with my father on our farm in eastern Iowa in the 1950s, got a BA and MA in Anthropology at the University of Iowa where I did my first field training in the late 1960s, earned a PhD in Anthropology with a specialty in archaeology at the University of Kansas in 1977. My first job was at the University of South Dakota, then back to the University of Iowa, then to the Minnesota Historical Society, then finally Indiana University (IUPUI) and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art from which I retired in 2017 as Professor emeritus of Anthropology and Museum Studies and as Public Scholar of Native America Representation. However, as I tell people, I retired as a professor, but am still active as an archaeologist. If you want to know more click on the link to the Biographical Information.
4. To some extent, a memoir. Why? Certainly I have had and/or still have other roles in my life: son, brother, uncle, father, husband, lecturer, author, consultant, and a ton of other things that go along with being a contemporary adult. At the same time, I must admit that anthropology and specifically archaeology have formed many of my perspectives and attitudes toward those roles but also what goes on around us in our contemporary world, including its delights and its problems. I hope you will find it interesting, puzzling, and sometimes funny, but as in the back of the pickup in the logo, full of useful information and maybe a few surprises!

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Disclaimer
I try very hard to meet copyrights claims on texts and graphics. At very least I will work within Fair Use standards, that is, this site is meant to be educational, carries no advertising, and is not for profit. I follow traditional academic standards by providing citations for quotations and stick within the four line limitations for them or ask permissions. Where possible, I provide links to sites for which I can't acquire permissions instead of just copying them. If you find images. text, or other materials for which you hold a copyright and feel your copyright has been violated, please notify me by e-mail at ljzoneota@larryjzimmerman.com .  I will remove the item(s) or formally request your permission to use them. It would help if you will be specific by providing the url to the page or image you are concerned about as well as the precise image or text. If you are willing to provide permission, please send me attribution information you would like to include indicating that permission has been granted. Regarding e-mail to this account: I check it relatively often, but don't expect an immediate response. Being clear in your e-mail subject line about a topic related to this site will probably get more immediate attention.
I will link to a relatively few other web sites. The web is a constantly changing environment so web sites often disappear or change urls. Updating them is demanding. If you find a dead link and need that web site immediately, please search for it using a search engine before asking me to do it for you. If you let me know that a link is dead, I will make an effort to search for it and change it if I find a different url. If you want a list of sources for material in lecture notes or publications I probably won't provide them.
All opinions on these pages are my own and do not represent Indiana University (from which I have been retired since 2017) or any of the professional organizations to which I belong or have belonged: World Archaeological Congress, Society for American Archaeology, American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, Register of Professional Archaeologists, Plains Anthropological Society, or any other to which I have belonged or may have failed to mention.