Matt Peeples
@pattmeeples
Archaeologist and professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University. I mostly “skeet” (is that what we’re calling it?) about archaeology, baseball, stuff I cook, and the weather.
Since the original battle didn’t end in a decisive victory for either side, we decided to settle the fate of the hive city with a game of chess.
It’s 116 F in central Arizona today so they had to put a warning sign on Buc-ee so he wouldn’t burn anybody!
I think it’s important for every parent to teach their children financial responsibility, patience, and delayed gratification. I’ve decided to teach my son the traditional way.
My mom found this in my stuff at their house. Time to break out the calculator and the tiny pewter mechs! If you know you know.
So, this has become a daily thing on our Center for Archaeology and Society Teams page. Look at an object and guess where it came from in the world and the time period. It's like the Wordle for museum people: Anthropeum.com · Jun 18 2026 🟦🟩🟨🟩🟥🟦🟦🟨🟩🟦 69,845 · top 19% of players today!
Made Papoutsakia with eggplants, onions, tomatoes, parsley, and garlic all from the garden. Super tasty!
Promoted to full! Woo hoo! Thanks so much to all of the people who have helped me get to this stage.
It makes me laugh that my parents drop off instructions for the dog at doggie daycare for a few days is more detailed than anything they ever sent when dropping me off at summer camp for a month. :)
Got to see some old friends and childhood nightmares today at the Ray Harryhausen exhibit at the Mini Time Machine Museum in Tucson. Worth checking out if you’re in the area.
A comparative analysis of metropolitan identity through multi-franchise character typologies: cultural semiotics and spatial analysis. In this essay I will...
I found my next hobby. My son wanted some Rubik’s cubes and related things for Christmas which he is enjoying but somehow I’m now the one memorizing algorithms and learning how to avoid OLL/PLL parity and trying to improve my TPS.
Beautiful red on buff jar by August Wood we got at the S’edav Va’aki Art Market happening today and tomorrow. There are so many great folks out there with beautiful work so check it out if you’re in Phoenix
The original from DiNic’s in Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia.
Melissa grew some broccoli rabe and peppers plus pork shoulder was on sale which means I got to try to recreate the best sandwich I’ve ever had. Roast pork, sharp provolone, long hots, and broccoli rabe on a Noble bread hoagie roll. Any meal that takes 3 days to make has to be good.
I’ve eaten this a lot but never made it myself until tonight. Lemongrass chicken on vermicelli noodles with fresh and pickled vegetables from our garden. From the garden: lemongrass, lettuce, carrots, daikon, cilantro, green onion, garlic, cucumber, and chile. Super funky and yummy with fish sauce.
Super cool. My grandfather’s old International Harvester tractor that I learned to drive as a kid was looking rough but was given to a friend after he passed. They fixed it up and it’s now being used for local events. It’s named ‘Ol Cecil’ after my grandfather. Glad people can still enjoy it!
More rain than all of 2024 in just 24 hours followed by one of the brightest rainbows I’ve ever seen
We got more rain in the last four hours than we have for the entire year before today.
I used this prompt in chatGPT to extract data from an archaeological report where I already had the data so that I could check accuracy. Much of the extracted information comes from paragraphs and not tables and it worked well. This will save me so much time even if I have to check things manually.