User:Forthright

I am a Canadian anthropologist. I've been a Wikipedia user since 2004, but have become active in editing pages in March 2006 in order to help expand and clean up some articles related to my areas of expertise. In my spare time, I run a little website called The Phrontistery.

Areas of Interest

 * archaeology
 * anthropology
 * history of anthropology
 * linguistics
 * writing systems
 * English language
 * numerals
 * Politics of Canada
 * Northumberland County, Ontario
 * history of mathematics

Articles I have created

 * Levi L. Conant
 * Frederick Jones Bliss
 * Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
 * Tell el-Hesi
 * Alexander Marshack
 * Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
 * Kivas Tully
 * Baltimore, Ontario
 * Roseneath, Ontario
 * Cramahe, Ontario
 * Grammatology

Other articles to which I have contributed significantly

 * Cobourg, Ontario
 * Hamilton, Ontario (township)
 * Robert Lowie
 * Gary Urton
 * Raoul Naroll
 * Alnwick/Haldimand, Ontario

Planned new articles and expansions

 * Ishango Bone
 * Jean de Heinzelin
 * Denise Schmandt-Besserat
 * Jack Goody
 * Georges Ifrah
 * Abacus
 * Narmer macehead
 * Abydos
 * Proto-Elamite script
 * Dongba script
 * Aztec writing
 * Kpelle syllabary
 * Vai syllabary
 * Varang Kshiti
 * Sorang Sompeng
 * Tocharian alphabet
 * Pahawh Hmong