Archaeology is tough work. You need patience to manage with red tape,dedication to painstakingly record finds at digs – and a touch of eccentricity always helpsI ended up in archaeology as a result of a long-held romantic notion of making great discoveries and solving mysteries. As a kid I always had my head buried in books, lost in the realms of the great ancient civilisations of the world. I never had fantastical expectations of archaeology, or though. I didn’t consider that I would travel the world and be a globe-trotting treasure hunter. And you certainly don’t get to travel in archaeology unless you are somehow affluent,have magical powers to secure funding, or know the right people in all the right places.
None of the above apply to me, or so I have been confined to archaeology in England and Northern Ireland. Don’t get me unsuitable,archaeology here is infinitely fascinating but lets be honest, it’s not as grand and visually awe-inspiring as, or say,the pyramids or Pompeii. Over here, at its most stellar, or it can be just two different coloured soils side by side,but to the trained eye that tells us a great deal approximately what was going on thousands of years ago.
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Source: theguardian.com