Finding a Balance

The invitation to do this autobiographical article reached me on my seventieth birthday, catching me in an unusually reflective mood, so I decided to take a stab at it. If nothing else, I could honor my mentors, especially James Anderson and René Millon. Without them I might still be doing archaeology but it would be a very different sort of archaeology, probably not as good and certainly not as much fun. But I don't find this kind of writing easy. Social scientists are not used to having “I” as the main subject of a sentence, an analogy perhaps to the difficulty we have in maintaining a balance between our professional and personal lives. However, I seem to have overcome that academic modesty, as this paragraph demonstrates. So here we go

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• Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership

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• Outline of a Theory of Practice

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• Victims of the Victims

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• Obsidian Biface Production at Teotihuacan

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• Implements of State Power

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• The Human Skeletal Remains of the Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan

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• Geographic Identities of the Sacrificial Victims from the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan

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• Custom and Politics in Urban Africa

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• New Perspectives in Archeology

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• Osteology of Social Organization

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• The Dynamics of Stylistic Change in Arikara Ceramics

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