Tag: Art History
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All in a Day’s (or Week’s) Work
I owe everyone a small apology for being relatively silent this past week. It has been filled with challenges paired with rewards and motivations; not the least of which has been limited internet access and over 90°F heat throughout the workday. I felt like Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty hiking through…
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The Field Season Commences (kind of)!
This week,the team of students and archaeologists (myself included) from the Apolline Project commenced their first activities in the field for this summer. Work-wise, it was a fairly mild week due to permit delays for our excavation in Pollena; we spent most of our time shuffling through the ever-important excavation documentation from the lastseason to assist in…
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How NOT to visit Pompeii
On Friday, I went with a group of Apolline Project participants to Pompeii. I have to admit, I’m rather disappointed in myself as an archaeologist for how I failed to manage approaching the site. We were unprepared in a number of ways and quickly became overwhelmed by arguably one of the largest and most popular archaeological sites…
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Arriving in Pollena
Yesterday, I made my way to the first project I will be participating in this summer, the Apolline Project, located outside of Naples, Italy (specifically, the town of Pollena Trocchia). I flew with Meridiana Air and I must admit I got everything I paid for (which is to say not much). Thanks to Google Flights,…
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Welcome to my blog!
Hello Everyone! For those that missed the “About” section, my name is Dustin Thomas, aka The Starving Archaeologist. I’ve taken to this blog to share my journey toward becoming an academic archaeologist; a difficult path on which one day I will earn a PhD and become faculty at a college or university. There, I could…
The Starving Archaeologist 