Adrian Praetzellis's professional career started in 1972 when he began digging full-time on Roman and medieval sites on the British archaeological circuit. This lead to work on prehistoric and 18th/19th-century archaeology in Virginia, the Great Basin, and California, where he has lived ever since. Adrian has a Ph.D. in anthropology from UC Berkeley and is Professor of Anthropology at Sonoma State University. In addition to teaching archaeology and cultural resources management, he is Director of the Anthropological Studies Center, a university research institute. Adrian is author/illustrator of two comic novels that teach archaeological theory and method, Death by Theory and Dug to Death (AltaMira Press). The former has gone into two editions, the latter has been celebrated as ".

the only archaeology textbook with a Yiddish glossary"--a claim to fame that's not likely to be challenged any time soon.