Posts Tagged "archaeology"

Archaeological Fieldwork

Posted by on Nov 8, 2004 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

I par­tic­i­pated in my first batch of archae­o­log­i­cal field­work on Saturday. 9am-12pm. Nothing major, but it was excit­ing… shovel tests at twenty meter tran­sects. Pairs of two dug foot round/deep holes and sifted the dirt/plants/rocks through a shaker screen. Anything of inter­est is bagged and marked. I’m try­ing to be care­ful about sound­ing too impor­tant… what I’m doing is very, very minor. But! I am incred­i­bly jazzed and giddy about this whole project. So if I make it sound like a big deal, it’s not, but it is. This is my pet project at the Lab. I do...

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History Conferences and Spitting on Artifacts

Posted by on Sep 28, 2004 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

I just printed off the lec­ture notes from my Latin Govt. class course reserves… 57 pages of testable mate­r­ial, and that’s assum­ing she’s only going to test over what we’ve cov­ered. Doubtful. I’m spend­ing this evening read­ing the text­book and review­ing these notes. I’ll do the same all evening tomor­row. Thursday, I’m going to try to spend the entire day at the his­tory con­fer­ence — I’m excited. This is the first con­fer­ence within my field that I’ve attended. Four 2 hour lectures/discussions each day! More on Saturday, I think. The hotel is only...

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Lorien = Bad Archaeologist

Posted by on Sep 16, 2004 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

I am a bad, bad archaeologist-intern. I was assigned to iden­ti­fy­ing this but­ton medal­lion, today. Brass, hor­ri­bly tar­nished, can’t be soaked because it would ruin the paint. I was try­ing to brush off enough of the green gunk to read the Latin on the bot­tom, and all I could think was “just a lit­tle spit! One scrape of the tooth! All would be revealed!” But, alas, I was sur­rounded by the real archae­ol­o­gists who would likely not appre­ci­ate saliva in con­tact with artifacts. Sigh. Indiana Jones wouldn’t have minded a lit­tle bit of tooth and spit. When...

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