Research stay abroad or How to get into my Rome Office
Dear online readers, my name is Philipp and I am a PhD student of archaeology at the universities of Mainz and Erlangen (Germany). This year I am enjoying the full academic jet-set life with...
How to Academia - A blog on academic selfhelp
Dear online readers, my name is Philipp and I am a PhD student of archaeology at the universities of Mainz and Erlangen (Germany). This year I am enjoying the full academic jet-set life with...
Welcome back – seasons are changing, autumn is about to arrive and we epigrammetrists have been very busy during our summer break. Those of you who follow our social media accounts may have an...
This blogpost evolved from different situations where I was asked to draw a map or to do a GIS-based analysis of ancient stuff (inscriptions, tombs, Roman provinces, finding spots etc.). In one of my...
As an archaeologist by training and working in the environment of the northwestern Roman provices, my life and bookshelves are crowded with findings and research on various objects and excavations. But: Even if we...
Today’s post is my long ago promised book review of one of my favorite print ressources when it comes to GIS – the new QGIS workbook. QGIS is a free software (easily download it...
You all may remember my posts from last year on the topic “Diss-cembering” – a word play on “Dissertation” and “December” (How to Diss-cember and Diss-cembering to the End). In December 2019 I finished...
Can you believe it? We are celebrating out 1st anniversary! We are not that sure when we made out first online apperance, because our blog here, our Twitter account and our Instagram account show...
While finally doing my revisions and corrections on my dissertation text, I spend my last days of work (meaning work I am actually getting paid for) on maps. In our project, we are working...
Since I am trying to work myself into the use of programming with R and accomplishing my data analysis with this tool, I have struggled more than one time with the way of thinking...
Okay, I have to admit it, I saw the quote “to err is human to arr is pirate” and I totally loved it first sight. Then the love decided that I should try an...
As I told you last week, I was on my way to Italy – and now, I am back here in Austria, sitting in my appartment, enjoyed a wunderful silent and easy Sunday without...
Just make a guess: How many languages have I learned in the name of research and archaeology? I am not talking about Latin and Ancient Greek, or any other dead language or script, like...
It was a post of my dear LaTeX ninja, talking about the pros and cons (okay, basically the pros) of one getting started doing Digital Humanities (you can find the original post here). I...