Hey, I’m Vae
Desert dweller
Amateur naturalist
Professional archaeologist
Avid reader
Chronic tumblr user
(Tags relevant to archaeology life, reading and birding are added to this post).
Recent book recs
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
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache by Keith Basso
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Research 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
















