Just over a month away from my computer screen...it must be the digging season.
To enter an archaeological dig is to enter a fantasy world where the
concerns, possessions and buildings of the ancient dead are far more important
than anything available in 'Real Life' (TM). People engaged in digging / recording /
sampling / surveying / finds processing are generally unconcerned with the harsh banality
of mortgages, meetings and visits to the supermarket; they are, for a
relatively short period of time, totally focussed upon the pottery, lithics,
pits, postholes, ditches, walls, bones and abandoned floors of their distant
ancestors. It is a quite wonderful world: a Narnia for the otherwise obsessive,
compulsive and socially dysfunctional - I love it.
I am, rather sadly, currently moving towards the end of my annual archaeo-Narnia and must
face up to the impending reappearance of 'Real Life' (TM) very soon. But, before
I am dragged screaming back into the world of monstrous monotonous mindless
meetings, I will leave you with a few reminders of this year's archaeological
practice.
Archaeological fieldwork....the only legal high.
Welcome back.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It's good to be back.
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