Postholes: Back to Iraq!

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Back to Iraq!

Did cities grow from marshes? Heading out next week to launch our NSF-funded research program.

: 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.

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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.