February 2012
6 posts
6 tags
3 tags
1 tag
What is it about this field that attracts so many...
Including myself.
And it’s not just the archaeologists I know online, it’s the vast majority of us. My professor today said something implying that he wouldn’t want to live in a house full of other people (it was during a totally unrelated conversation about sororities before class started).
I guess I find it unusual because so much of our field is about knowing people. We...
2 tags
2 tags
Hi all
I’m back!
And am probably going to make this slightly more personal.
You can still expect informative posts and such, but there will also be stuff about my experience with archaeology classes at school and hopefully my field school this summer.
So here we go.
November 2011
5 posts
9 tags
9 tags
4 tags
Prostate cancer found in 2,000-year-old Egyptian... →
The Ptolemaic Era is later then I would usually be interested in, but still interesting.
6 tags
Archaeology in the Media
Many archaeologists have a problem with the way archaeologists are portrayed in Hollywood and on television. They view pop culture archaeologists as wrong and harmful to the future of archaeology because students come into the field so frequently with false hopes of being the next Indiana Jones of Lara Croft.
You can probably tell by my user name that I don’t have that same problem with...
2 tags
A bit of an introduction.
I’m a 19 year old archaeology major in Baltimore.
I hope to study abroad next year in the UK.
I’m focusing on Egypt, though I’m not sure what time period.
I spent time on a dig in Belize.
I desperately want to go on a dig in Egypt this summer with one of my professors.
-A