Post-thesis life!

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Kia ora,

So ... yeah ... it has been a while since I've posted anything on this blog (Apparently 304 days!)
 
But I'd like to think I have a reasonable excuse. After two long years, another life chapter recently drew to a close with the submission of my Master of Arts thesis for examination:




(OK, OK .... so it's actually a pretty poor excuse for 304 days of no blog posts!)


Anyway, after thesis submission came the somewhat terrifying realisation that I now need to find myself A JOB!!!

On that note - while I do have a few leads in mind, if anyone reading this happens to have an archaeology job going do feel free to get in touch!!!  :-D  (if only it were that easy!)

Around job hunting it's actually shaping up to be a pretty busy and exciting month ahead. After studying the archaeology of Papua New Guinea for the last three years I'll be heading over there in early June to participate in a two week excavation. More on this trip later.

Although I had to pay for my own flights to Papua New Guinea from New Zealand I am delighted to say I successfully applied for some funding to help with the cost from The Prehistoric Society, a British-based society that promotes the study of the prehistoric past worldwide.1

I'll get back to New Zealand a couple of days before the 2016 New Zealand Archaeological Association (NZAA) Conference. And if that sounds familiar, it may be because I talked about the 2015 NZAA conference in my last post 304 days ago!!!


Looking forward I hope that I'll have plenty to post about and reflect on as I make the transition from archaeology student to working archaeologist!

Fingers crossed anyway!  



Thanks for reading,

Nick

Footnote:

1 The prehistory of a given region is defined in archaeology as that period of the region's past which predates the written (historical) record. This is generally accepted within the discipline to be a non-value judgement of a period or its people. However, I acknowledge that the terms prehistory or 'prehistoric' can have different connotations outside of the discipline, an issue I've touched on in one of my first posts on this blog.

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