K. Kris Hirst

Kris was a working archaeologist in the American midwest, American southwest and, for one heady season, in Mexico, before retiring in 2005 to write freelance science articles in archaeology.

Kris has written articles for Science and Archaeology magazines, and for over fifteen years has participated in panel discussions and presented several professional papers at conferences and elsewhere on the use of the Internet as a tool for presenting archaeological information to the public. Her most recent article is "Archaeology Today: Major Sites, Issues, and Problems", published in Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Archaeology, in September 2007.

Kris has a BS in Education from Illinois State University; and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Iowa. She is a member in good standing of the Society for American Archaeology, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Register of Professional Archaeologists and the National Association of Science Writers.

I am totally obsessed with making archaeology available to the public; there are far too many fascinating things that archaeologists find out that never ever hit the front page of your daily newspaper. That's what I hope you'll find here. If you're interested in what I'm working on right this minute, I have a twitter feed called archaeology, please feel free to tweet along.