I graduated from Pitt with a BA in anthropology. I started leaning more towards the geology and archaeology route after graduating and since then completed an internship as a mineral sampler and have a project management job in my firm's geology department. To be honest, my current job kind of fell in my lap and I would like to be an archaeology technician because I'm tired of being in an office all day even though I enjoy project management. However, Pitt didn't offer an anthropology or archaeology field school and I didn't even know about it until after graduating.
Is this going to hurt me trying to get an archaeology job?? Will my former and current experience help even this out? Tips from anyone who is currently an archaeology technician would be great!
Hi everyone,
I’m sorry if i’m not putting this in the right place, but i’m not really active on reddit so i’m not sure how this whole thing works and this seems like the best option i’ve found.
I am very early in my archaeology “career”. I only have an AA focusing on Anthropology and I completed a 6 week field school in New Mexico about 4 months ago. During field school, i was told about a project near my hometown that was desperate for help, so I applied and got a job as a field tech! I took some time off school to work there full time, but plan to start again in spring.
Anyways, that’s enough background. I’ve been working on this project continuously since I got home from field school, so about 4 months. And I just feel SO. BAD. at it! I feel clumsy and non-intuitive and I mess up little stupid things so often that it’s been so demoralizing. Whether it’s misusing words on paperwork, labeling bags/boxes incorrectly, or just excavating out of order (i.e. today, when I completely excavated around a vessel without finding the edge of the whole feature first… idk why and in hindsight it was stupid, but my supervisor had to point it out for me to see the error). I am just so frustrated with myself and I was hoping some real professional archaeologists that have been doing this longer could offer some wisdom or comfort so I know i’m not a complete failure. I am so used to being book smart and succeeding at school, its the only thing i’ve been known to be good at, but real field work requires knowledge and skills beyond what can be taught in a book/classroom and it makes me feel so stupid for not being as successful as I think I should after so many months.
Now, to be fair to myself I should probably add:
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Training at the job is very minimal, and I was kind of just thrown into it day 1 with only another field tech to show me what to do (I know this is probably standard but people who started the project earlier than me got a full training course)
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Everything I’ve excavated on this site is very different from what I learned to excavate during field school and the procedures are sort of different too, which again I know is probably pretty standard but I will admit that translating and applying what I learn to varying situations does not come second nature to me
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Whether this is relevant idk, but I was recently diagnosed with BPD which makes me wonder if i am over-inflating the problems and making them seem worse than they are. But because I have no
Hello Badhistory! This is a slightly modified version of my post with the same topic posted to r/totalwar, discussing the depiction of Helen of Troy by Creative Assembly in Total War Troy.
We know the trailer and its Helen. The Total War Forum asked in this post why Helen wears “Clown Makeup” and CA_Maya answered with this picture. RafSwi7 in this post also threw in this picture, which looks a lot like what Creative Assembly used for their Helen in Total War: Troy.
We could level criticism at CA for not being particularly creative, seeing how they copy the likeness of characters from movies and shows rather directly (Looking at you Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang from Red Cliff), but this is not what I am setting out to do here. The Total War Forum Post traces the inspiration for this makeup to this, a head from 1300-1200 B.C. Interesting. Looking further into this, I stumbled upon an article by Heleni Plaiologou, A Female Painted Plaster Figure from Mycenae, in: Mycenaean Wall Painting in Context, edited by H. Brecoulaki et al, 2015, in which my suspicions were confirmed on page 100: The common interpretations are of this as a goddess’ or a sphinx’s head, but more importantly, the Bronze Age greeks have done the same as the Classical and Archaic Greeks more familiar to me: Women are painted rather universally white to represent their skin as a way to differentiate them from the darker painted men. As long as this is preserved (rarely on extant pottery, due to white paints being added after baking the clay, so it gets lost over two millennia.) Even if this would be a normal woman, this bright white skin tone does not represent makeup, it’s merely an attribute to add to the pile for this being a female being. Some things apparently do not change.
Not that any of this matters, because we shouldn’t use a Mycenaean piece of art in the first place, as none of them represent Helen, how could they. The Iliad was
... keep reading on reddit ➡I generally liked everything except the 'archaeology system' they are implementing in the next update. I really hate how it works - it doesn't suit the vanilla game - just look at the way the blocks get slowly brushed away! It does not feel vanilla or look very fun. It's unique, but pointless. At the very least it needs reworking to steer away from making vanilla feel like modded Minecraft. I will admit that I don't know how they would do this however I guess this further reinforces my point the system has no place in vanilla minecraft.
Examples include the Boots of flight at Stormguard Citadel and Cultist diary pages in the Infernal Source, both of which are required for further progress in their sites.
Other mysteries items purely for lore reason can remain random, but it seems unreasonable to lock items required to unlock the next area purely behind RNG.
The boots of flight for example can be given after digging up your third or fourth artifacts in the Citadel. And one cultist page could be given every two artifacts, instead of being completely random.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)
> There is big money involved: the US-based Antiquities Coalition has estimated that since 2011, US$3 billion worth of Egyptian antiquities has been illegally smuggled abroad.Antiquities in backyards.
> "Modern Egypt is built upon ancient Egypt, so people can dig in the courtyard of their houses and find antiquities," says Dr Hawass.
> Katie A Paul from the Antiquities Coalition recently conducted a six-year study on the illegal antiquities trade in Egypt.
> In Egypt specifically, the Protection of Antiquities Law was passed in 1983.
> Perth woman Joan Howard caused a stir in Egypt last year, when she showed off her enormous antiquities collection to Australian media.
> As the wife of a UN diplomat based in the Middle East in the 1960s and '70s, Mrs Howard spent much of her time collecting antiquities all over the region, including Egypt.
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This article is making the rounds. Is there some evidence I'm missing, or is this just bad archaeology? It seems sensational, especially in light of claims made in books like 1421: The Year China Discovered America that have been pretty well debunked. Let me know if I need to x-post this to a more relevant subreddit. Thanks!
