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Bye, Wordpress!
It’s been a while between updates here, but today we’re back online. The site has languished for a few years, and I’ve never been very happy with the look and feel of it. I’ve been using Wordpress.org for many years, and it has been a great platform. Back in the late 2000s it was quite a novel product, and after starting on ‘Blogger’ a few years earlier I quickly migrated to WP, as I found it was a refreshingly easy to use, yet highly customisable platform for web publishing.
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In Covid times we teach online
I have been busy of late teaching a unit ARPA352/552, Public Archaeology and Cultural Heritage management, here at UNE. It has been quite a long break for me from teaching, having finalised my last unit/topic at Flinders in late 2019 (a third year Environmental Archaeology unit, which I hope to teach again one day!), and I’m very much enjoying coming back into it. But my gosh has the world changed in that short time.
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Too long between posts...
So I’m not sure what happened, but it is almost five years since my last post here. I have a love-hate relationship with social media, but that was excessive. I certainly have been busy, teaching and writing along with a constant stream of fieldwork and community research committments. I have so much that I should have been sharing here, and I’ve failed miserably at something that I have always (since at least 2004) strongly argued should be a central part of archaeological practice: I have failed to write openly, to share my work, and to reflect on my practice, my discipline and this mad old world we have created for ourselves.
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