Matt Peeples

I’m doing an archaeology day event at my son’s school and decided to throw the kids a curveball at the “guess the purpose of this artifact” table. Who knows? Maybe they’ll have some good ideas.

The classroom I normally teach my large lecture class in is uninhabitable as the air conditioner is out. This means I'm going online 2020 style for the next week. I wasn't too concerned about it but as I'm getting started I'm suddenly flooded with memories of bad experiences during that era. Ugh.

It’s zucchinis coming out of our ears season in the garden and we tried the Stanley Tucci zucchini pasta thing and it’s actually 💯 🔥

This is a podcast that I listened to a few years back that talks about Dolly Parton and her place in American culture. Not only was she a hugely influential musician and icon, she also was extremely generous with things like her book program. Truly one of a kind. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

Have you ever used a slang term you've heard your student's say a bunch, only for one of them to come tell you after class that it has a totally different meaning than what you thought and you probably shouldn't say it? Yeah... uh, no... me neither.

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 feel like I know some folks who can relate to this. Evicted for too amy books? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...

Me sailing in from the sea: “Nice Bronze Age you got there…. Would be a shame if someone were to collapse it. “

New article out on the historical archaeological side of our field school project at S'edav Va'aki. This article has a social media connection as it was a anonymous user on the old bird app that helped us identify the "electric deodorizer scent cake" mentioned here rdcu.be/fub7c

New pet peeve I didn’t know I had: When a reporter uses the phrase “for lack of a better term” in an article when there are clearly several better terms used throughout the rest of the article.

Monsoon is here!!!

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.

Sunday morning!

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!

My son is out of school this week and we’ve been working our way through the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings movies. My son’s review: “these movies started a bunch of great memes but I didn’t think they’d actually really good movies.”

Made Papoutsakia with eggplants, onions, tomatoes, parsley, and garlic all from the garden. Super tasty!

The team at the Center for Archaeology and Society at ASU has created a multi semester NAGPRA learning track to train students to be NAGPRA specialists. The details of the program were discussed in this Advances in Archaeological Practice article out now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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. :)

We're hiring a collections inventory specialist to help with our museum program. Pass along to anyone who may be interested. asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ASUSta...

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.

Happy opening day!

Congrats to Britt Davis on completing his dissertation defense today. His work focused on the dynamics of regional networks and local political strategies in the Belize River valley in the early and middle Preclassic period.

I saw a quail that looked like a muppet today… that is all

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.

The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 2026 is now open for applications! The 4-day summer school takes place in Barcelona from 16 to 19 June 2026. You can find all details and apply here: https://www.pastnetworks.net/.

Happy New Year!!! Here’s to a good 2026

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

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

I always have a bunch of meetings to schedule with perspective students exactly during the time when most people are ending DST (Arizona doesn't do it, except for the Navajo reservation). Further different countries start and end DST on different days. Causes a right mess. Leave your clocks alone!

I am exactly pockets get caught on my office door knob tall.

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.

Plan your next vacation around the distribution of Roman road using this awesome new tool by lots of folks, including my colleague Tom Brughmans. They doubled the number of digitally compiled Roman roads. Seriously awesome! Also a cool intro animation. itiner-e.org

I can’t be mad at the whole series no matter the outcome. That was really fun to watch.

Yamamoto is awesome to be fair

They’re already painting the mural of Rojas in LA

George Springer could do the most George Springer thing right now