{"id":2,"date":"2025-08-04T21:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:56:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello and welcome! I am an archaeologist and this is my research blog. I&#8217;m currently working on <a href=\"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/transferring-old-posts\/\">transferring my old posts from elsewhere<\/a>, but eventually I will post some new content as well. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love collections research and if you have an underused archaeology collection, you should absolutely hire me to do some neat research on it. This blog is filled with examples of my work. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/\">see my CV on the home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of my writing here was done on the clock (as a contractor at the Rogers Archaeology Lab at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of Natural History), but the majority of the work here was done on my own time. If you find my work useful, you are welcome, but never obligated, to <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/lotje0544\">buy me a coffee (or tea, as the case may be \ud83d\ude42<\/a> ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find me on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/lottegovaerts.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/social.pancakesontuesday.com\/@lottegovaerts\">Mastodon<\/a>. You can also email me at MyFirstName [AT] ThisDomain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Color photo of me standing at a lectern, with the first slide of a presentation on a big screen behind me. The title on it is &quot;Trading Post Artifacts: Re-examining Archaeological Collections Associated with the MIssouri River Fur Trade&quot; It also has my name, the title of the event: National Fur Trade Symposium, and the date of the presentation: September 19, 2018.\" class=\"wp-image-285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-1870x2493.jpg 1870w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-8159-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Selfie, standing in a long aisle of museum collection storage cabinets wearing a blue lab coat with my name on the front left.\" class=\"wp-image-314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-1870x2493.jpg 1870w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20190430_150820-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-193358-1024x697.png\" alt=\"Photo of me in a 1x1 meter excavation unit, looking at the surface I'm working on and thus away from the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-193358-1024x697.png 1024w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-193358-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-193358-768x522.png 768w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-193358-1536x1045.png 1536w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-193358-400x272.png 400w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-193358-800x544.png 800w, https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-18-193358.png 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome! I am an archaeologist and this is my research blog. I&#8217;m currently working on transferring my old posts from elsewhere, but eventually I will post some new content as well. Stay tuned! I love collections research and if you have an underused archaeology collection, you should absolutely hire me to do some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lottegovaerts.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}