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Oldest Mesoamerican Pyramid Tomb Found

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Ohhh...nooo...you win that one JP. I had not even thought of that pun on the OP. Excellent.

I would so love to go on an archaeological dig...if it weren't for the dirt, heat, and insects. :laugh:
 
Come out here to NM, there is a dig right down the road. I spoke to the people on Earth day and they said to stop by any time. I don't think they will let me dig, but it will be cool to go see what they have found so far.
 
I would so love to go on an archaeological dig...if it weren't for the dirt, heat, and insects.
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You should come to the UK. We can promise you plenty of the first, none at all of the second and minimal amounts of the third!

After next week's exams are over, I start five weeks of excavation on Iron Age and Romano-British sites... My idea of heaven.
 
bitsy said:
You should come to the UK. We can promise you plenty of the first, none at all of the second and minimal amounts of the third!

After next week's exams are over, I start five weeks of excavation on Iron Age and Romano-British sites... My idea of heaven.
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Bitsy, that is so neat. I could just lay on the ground at ground level, with my chin on my hands, and stare into the hole all day. LOL.
 
I could just lay on the ground at ground level, with my chin on my hands, and stare into the hole all day.
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Kinda like this....?! That's me lying on the ground, staring into what I like to call "Feature 1016".
 

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Bitsy I want to come out there and join you on a dig... Iron age archeology is what I had always wanted to study. I love the medieval times, they are extremely interesting, even though (from my history prof. point of view) many historians don't think much of significance happened.
 
Ah in Britain, the Iron Age was 1500 years before the Medieval period. I find it fascinating - watching the culture change as people carried out trading with the rest of Europe, influences seeping in from the Mediterranean and further east as the Romans creep closer, seeing how settlement and burial types change as priorities shift (from farming to defensive to expressions of prestige and back again)... I think your history prof is missing a trick, but then again, I am a total nerd about the period!!

I'm especially interested in Iron Age pottery and am about to write an undergraduate dissertation looking at why people drilled holes in fired pots. Why not just buy a pot that was made with a hole in it? Why risk shattering the fragile material of a fired pot?
 
Yeah, his time period of concentration was Greek and Roman History. He doesn't really enjoy teaching much of the other stuff...The amount of information we got on his periods was 100x's what we got on anything else.
 
bitsy said:
Kinda like this....?! That's me lying on the ground, staring into what I like to call "Feature 1016".
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May I ask what the door is for? I'm hoping he's just using it as some sort of sun-block or something, not pretending that's where a modern door would have been found :p
 
LOL! No door in the hole.....

There was an odd layer of red clay about two feet down the pit and we were trying to get a photo of it. We needed the entire area of the photograph to be in shade, but it was a cloudless sky that day and best thing we could find to create shade, was the internal door from one of the site office Portacabins.

That picture made a great caption competition though!
 
I figured maybe the guy was just being a gentleman, and offering it up for you to lie on, rather than the dirty ground.
But your explanation is much more interesting.
 
Outcast said:
Come out here to NM, there is a dig right down the road. I spoke to the people on Earth day and they said to stop by any time. I don't think they will let me dig, but it will be cool to go see what they have found so far.
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They MIGHT let you dig if you're willing to do it volunteer. They might not, but if you're really interested, volunteering is a great way to get your foot in the door for such things.
 
desertanimal said:
They MIGHT let you dig if you're willing to do it volunteer. They might not, but if you're really interested, volunteering is a great way to get your foot in the door for such things.
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If I only had the time. But with taking classes, getting married, and moving this summer my time is limited.
 
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