Hey, I’m Vae
I’m an archaeologist and a birder, and a reader, and a chronic tumblr user. (Tags relevant to archaeology life, reading and birding are added to this post)
Currently reading
The Hohokam and Their World by Linda Gregonis and Victoria Evans
Storied Property: María Cordova's Casa by Lydia R Otero
The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World by Samanth Subramanian
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie
Recently read recommendations
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities by Gary Paul Nabhan
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec
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Research projects, interests
(Some are past research topics, some are related to my professional projects, some are just ideas swirling around. I love my work!!)
Food processing tool personalization as a way to track women’s migration and knowledge transmittal
Indigenous water management strategies and technology
Modern assumptions on past inter- and intra-gender relations and how archaeology is used to reinforce modern values
