Publications

Use, Purpose, and Function – Letting the Artifacts Speak

An article (co-written with my wife) on archaeology, materiality, and theory of artifact interpretation. This was our first joint publication (hopefully of many). The theme is how we view, use, and interact with the material objects around us and how we, as archaeologists, can interpret the artifacts of the past through that lens.

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Sets, Graphs, and Things We Can See: A Formal Combinatorial Ontology for Empirical Intra-Site Analysis

My first journal article. It’s a deep-dive into the theory and methodology of the data content of archaeological sites, along with a “primer” for archaeologists on set and graph theory. The major finding was that archaeological sites, assemblages, and contexts can be formalized as a system of multisets.