Over the last decade Old Friends, the Thoroughbred Retirement Facility in Georgetown, KY, has put a new face on the concept of equine aftercare.When Michael Blowen first dreamed of creating Old Friends, he envisioned a place where Thoroughbred stallions could retire with dignity following their racing or breeding careers. He also wanted people to visit the iconic horses.In 2003, Old Friends opened on leased land with a miniature h...

New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts.This collection of original essays is the first to cover recent trends in foodways archaeology in the Midwest using the concept of cuisine: the selection of food ingredients and methods of food preparation, cooking, and serving/consumption in relation to their social, cultural, and environmental contexts. This work span the Early Archaic (9000 B...

Sophie was a small-town girl who moved to the big city of San Francisco, to make it big as a lawyer. Landing a dream job, she was ready to take the city by storm, that is until she met Haku Davis. With one look, he had her feelings caught up in a whirlwind of wonder and mystery. But it was something about him that put her on guard, something she couldn’t put her finger on, not knowing that her life was about to change drastically. And a part of her was about to come to light. Sophie is swe...

Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North AmericaAcross North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide archaeologists with unparalleled opportunities to explore new questions about the lives of ancient native peoples. For many years the topics of technology, economy, and political...