I went to an archeology party yesterday where they were only looking for remains of a lower leg

It was quite the shindig.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/DistortedWolf
πŸ“…︎ Jul 01 2020
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You shouldn’t work in archeology

It is a career in ruins

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πŸ‘€︎ u/coffeemist90881
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Dad deciding which Archeology Masters to do:

"I'm going to go and dig up some info"

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πŸ‘€︎ u/CalumMoo
πŸ“…︎ Aug 14 2016
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What is an archeologist

Someone whose career is in ruins

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πŸ“…︎ May 13 2019
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I almost went to school for Archeology

But it is a dying career.

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πŸ“…︎ Jan 07 2015
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We had an IDEA...

Back a few decades, I was working in a program with a local college in the Middle East.

The name of the program for ExPats has the clever acronym of "IDEA" (hey, I said it was clever); which stands for "Inter-Departmental Educational Adjunct". It's interdepartmental because my particular specialty not only covers field geology but also paleontology and a bit of archeology thrown in for good measure. Everyone hopes to have a good IDEA...

ahem...

Well, we saddle up and head for the Dune Sea out in the west of the country, where the Precambrian, Cambrian, Silurian, Cretaceous, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene crop out and access is relatively easy and non-injurious.

Well, we caravan out, some 30 Land Cruisers, Nissan patrol, and the odd Mitsubishi Galloper strong. We all get our maps, compasses and split up into 5 or 6 special interest groups ("SIG's"); where each IDEA has his own GPS and LIDAR laser ranging apparatus. Reason being, that there are very few benchmarks out in the desert, and even those are constantly at the mercy of the shifting and ever-blowing sands.

Since we're split into groups and at any one time, ranging up to and including some 50 km2, when a real find is located, a device called the "DIME" (Digital-Interface Monitor Encoder) is attached and programmed into the GPS for location later; it is a digital sort of low-frequency transponder, developed from technology used by offshore drillers and jacket setters where benchmarks are even more transitory.

The way it works is rather simple. When something is to be marked for later retrieval, a series of wooden posts are pounded in a triangular manner around the find and the DIME is set, programmed with the GPS and attached to one or more of the posts.

That's the theory, at least.

Everything works well, especially all the hardened electronics and computer gizmos, but attaching the DIME to the stakes is the real problem. It can't be nailed, screwed or fastened with any sort of metal contrivance as that farkles the magnetic field and causes all sorts of goofy spurious signals. Zip ties don't last long in the heat and duct tape is right out. Many sites have been lost to the shifting sands this way.

Velcro doesn't work too well, as the sand fills the hooks of the receiving piece of velcro and soon renders it useless. String or fishing line work, but that's temporary (they melt). Glue or mastic are out as these are supposed to be temporary. Even plastic sleeves don't work due to the heat out

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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My brother dadjoked his teacher the other day.

My brother was at his humanities class and he had to draw a picture of his house from a archeological standpoint (don't ask me why this was asked in Humanities because I have no idea). Anyway, his teacher came up to his table and asked: "Do you have your house with you"? My brother responded with "No, but I have a drawing of it". His teacher then said: "get out" (her father is very much a dad).

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