Happy New Year!
This is the first blog entry for 2011 and the first for Dr. Erin McGuire's Archaeology of Death course at UVic.
This will be an exciting term for me and it will be challenging so I expect encouragement and advice from all of you. . . and cash. Send cash.
I completed a Viking Archaeology course in the summer with Dr. McGuire and enjoyed that experience immensely. See you in the future!
(a few days later)
. . . and furthermore...
Mortuary practises in cultures through all times and in all places can shed light on beliefs, lifeways and social complexity/organization. In short, we can learn a lot about a People and their world by looking at how they deal with their dead. My interests are wide and varied but I have a keen yen for ritual and ideas of the afterlife and of spiritualities found in cultures, past and present. I look forward to developing an understanding of just how these intangible aspects of culture are reflected in the archaeological record and how we as archaeologists can interpret them.
I also look forward to reading some of your blogs throughout this course. Excelsior!
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