This post is an introduction to my research of ancient Anuradhapura's collapse. It started out as a search for sustainability...

This is the third in a series of twelve posts on hunter-gatherer archaeology (3/12). Image 1: Lithic materials from an eastern Iberian...

Now, prepare yourself... I'm really going to let my nerd-flag fly here. I like to compartmentalise things (when it suits my agenda). I...

This is the second in a series of twelve posts on hunter-gatherer archaeology (2/12). Ethnography While there are varying specific...

This deep dive series investigates how have archaeologists have established the stratigraphic reliability of hunter-gatherer sites and...

How Harry Lourandos’ concept of ‘intensification’ can be viewed as a reductive model for Pleistocene human-environment explanations in Great

As part of the festivalCHAT2020 I wrote about the Pompeii Premise and impermanence. I also made another post where I set out my own...

Pompeii Premise: Still Life Image: Moldy Lemon 2019, Kathleen Ryan

Yesterday I talked about time’s arrow and the intuitiveness of a unidirectional nature to time as you and I experience it. I touched on...

The Asymmetry of Time I don’t want to get carried away talking about time, but when I do talk about time I tend to get carried away. We...

Intro to The Drift of Time series for the festival CHAT 2020!

Welcome to my new digs! Come talk with me about time, archaeology, and the poster people who got us here. Let's go!

I was born on Taribelang land in Queensland, and grew up on Turrbal Country. I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as...