User:DavidThomas71
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David C. Thomas is a freelance field archaeologist and researcher. He has worked on projects from North Africa through the Near East to Central Asia and is currently co-director of an archaeological project at the Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan. He's also worked at Pella, Jordan, Tell Brak in Syria and Jarma in Libya.
David's research interests include wells and the 'archaeo-politics' of water, mud-brick architecture and the use of space. In 2006, he was awarded a three-year scholarship to write a PhD on 'The ebb and flow of empires - Afghanistan and neighbouring lands in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries' in La Trobe University in Melbourne. The Archaeological Sites of Afghanistan in Google Earth (ASAGE) project has developed out of this research.
When not in a hole he's dug himself into, he enjoys travel (deserts and mountains, and places without McDonalds), thought-provoking films and alternative music, although recently becoming a father has somewhat curtailed his overseas adventures.