Archaeology in France and Germany
Roman amphitheater in Paris I just returned from a trip to Paris and Bonn. In Paris I sat on the dissertation defense committee of Marion Forest . Marion passed with highest honors. Her dissertation is a social-spatial analysis of sites on the Malpais de Zacapu in Michoacan, Mexico. This is a lava flow with several large, densely-packed settlements with extraordinary architectural preservation. Her dissertation is quite good, with lots of good spatial and architectural data, and some information on artifacts: Forest, Marion 2014 L'organisation sociospatiale des agglomérations urbaines du Malpaís de Zacapu, Michoacán, Mexique (1250-1450 après J.-C.). Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Archaeology, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Bonn Cathedral Marion spent a semester at Arizona State University a couple of years ago, working with me and other members of our comparative urban project . After several days in Paris, including some time looking at medieval remains ( s...