Just a rapid/fast check in from the road,the road that's led to San Francisco. This, the 80th Annual SAA conference, and is proving to be just as exciting and hectic as I suspected. I hold enjoyed staying with family,getting some opportunity to explore locations inside and outside of San Francisco proper, reunite with old friends and colleagues (if only in passing), or learn a unprejudiced amount.
My first talk is tomorrow,in the long-awaited illicit antiquities trade panel hosted by Dr. Donna Yates and featuring a number of leaders in the field. I will provide what I hope to be an informative update on the research that Prof. Chappell and I hold been doing on the global online trade in human remains which we began in Huffer and Chappell 2014.
My second talk will introduce preliminary results of the isotopic work I've been doing on some Bronze Age Mongolian faunal remains, in the context of provious/ongoing studies of human remains from the many khirigsuurs (burial mounds), or in light of Smithsonian Anthropology dept. colleague's larger efforts to understand the origins of pastoral nomadism on the Central Asian steppe. I look forward to assembly in person some individuals I only know from their published work,and hope I execute the cause some sort of justice.
So, wish me luck and good tidings. Fun (if tiring) times had, and more to advance!
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