Back to Iraq!
Did cities grow from marshes? Heading out next week to launch our NSF-funded research program.
posted by J.R. Pournelle @ 1:19 PM
Postholes
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.
Thursday, October 04, 2012
About Me
- Name: J.R. Pournelle
- Location: West Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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.
Read My Books
- 2010 Outies. Columbia: New Brookland Press. An SF sequel to The Mote in God's Eye based in part on this blog.
- 2011 Excavations: A City Cycle Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
- 2007Settlement And Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert Mccormick Adams. Los Angeles and Chicago: Cotson Institute of Archaeology and the Oriental Institute. Includes my early essay on marshland contributions to the world's oldest cities.
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