"That And 50 Cents Will Get You A Cup Of Coffee" Early Lessons And How We Applied The Benseian Way To Our Archaeological Development

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper is the culmination of more than 30 years of living under the cope of Bense. Every grad student came into the archaeology program at UWF with their own vision of how archaeology should be done. We all left with a deeper respect for the trade by the way we were taught, lead and guided through the web of archaeology. Through sweat, laughter and probably tears, all became the archaeologists standing before you today. This paper will discuss those early lessons and how those lessons have been applied to the work we do today and how even after so many years have passed, we still hear those Benseian sayings permeate into our daily instructions to those we teach.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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