Scott Hammerstedt

31 hours of travel yesterday to get home from Italy. Worth it. Fun trip, cool archaeology, and good people. But it is nice to see my yard tonight after 7 straight weeks in the field spread across 2 continents!

Arrividerci, Ficulle!

Field season at Spiro is officially wrapped up for the year. Now I will enjoy my 2 days off before heading to Italy to meet up with the OU Classics field school. I’m tired enough that I might actually be able to sleep on the plane! 🤞

Time lapse of my trench at Spiro Mounds yesterday #archaeology

Got to do a little bit of magnetic susceptibility at Spiro today

This was a nice surprise. This was my 17th season as the team’s faculty advisor #boomersooner

Did a quick magnetic susceptibility survey last week

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

It may be a new semester with new students, but the lab analysis for our Spiro Mounds project is still marching along

Baleful schnauzer and his gross pig. I feel you, Otto

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Beer lovers can raise a glass while honoring our nation’s 39th president.

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If you don’t have one of these get one. I ordered some on a whim a couple of months ago. Had a massive grease fire in my smoker today and this put it out in about a minute. But I salvaged the meat! 😂

Today was a brew day (coffee stout). Apparently I walked 2 miles around my garage in the process 😂🍻 #homebrew

Nice view from our Air B&B in southeast Oklahoma tonight. Quick geophysical survey tomorrow #archaeology

Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress.

Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵

2 19-pound turkeys going in the smoker in the morning. Just finished an ocean of brine 😂🍻

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Heading back for season 5 this summer!

You know you are a grown up Spiro Mounds researcher when Jim Brown starts sending you his papers

My lab students use these little notes to remind themselves of what their piles of rocks are before I check them. Found this one today (sadly with no rock next to it). RS =Reeds Spring, a type of Ozark chert with a lot of variation #archaeology 😂

More appropriate than ever these days

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First post? Guess it should be a pic of a sherd. Crockett Curvilinear Incised rim from Spiro Mounds.