It's hard to know how to help reconstruct "ordinary" life after a war. No life is ordinary. Here are reflections on pasts, presents, and futures along the way.
Sometimes you just have to get down and dirty. No, this isn't Ladies Mud Wrestling. It is me shoving a PVC tube into s canal bank a meter below water surface, hoping that we will come up with datable sediments. If this works, boats loaded with grad students will follow my lead. - J. R. Pournelle. Posted from my iPhone.
Location:Hammer District, Iraq
posted by J.R. Pournelle @ 3:59 PM
I am an anthropologist, archaeologist, and geographer, engaged in re-building university programs in Iraq. I tend to think about life as lived over the past several thousand years, as well as over the past several hundred hours. I was not embedded in "hot" zones. I was just going about a very odd little bit of ordinary life, in extraordinary circumstances.
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