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Sooooo, over time in my Bachelor study of archaeology I noticed both online and offline that people seem to have a wrong impression of what archaeology really is, so I commissioned 
Kaoruishere to create this amazing piece of art here to explain it to a broader audience.
Archaeology is no fancy exploring of ancient ruins (only in the most rare cases) or looting hidden treasures (that is what tomb raiders do) .
Nope. In most cases it is just mundane work, kneeling for hours in the sand or soil, digging up shards and other artefacts with brushes and similar equipment, cartograph them with a laser scanner on the digging site, sort them, put a number on them and catalogue them.
And just saying...another similar explanation for another confusion related to archaeology is allready in the planning.
Thank you soooo much Kaoruishere for creating this, especially in that lovely Tintin style. Truly love it, have to print it out one day and frame it. ^.=.^
Kaoruishere to create this amazing piece of art here to explain it to a broader audience. Archaeology is no fancy exploring of ancient ruins (only in the most rare cases) or looting hidden treasures (that is what tomb raiders do) .
Nope. In most cases it is just mundane work, kneeling for hours in the sand or soil, digging up shards and other artefacts with brushes and similar equipment, cartograph them with a laser scanner on the digging site, sort them, put a number on them and catalogue them.
And just saying...another similar explanation for another confusion related to archaeology is allready in the planning.
Thank you soooo much
Kaoruishere for creating this, especially in that lovely Tintin style. Truly love it, have to print it out one day and frame it. ^.=.^
Category Artwork (Digital) / Still Life
Species Western Dragon
Size 1059 x 745px
File Size 836.5 kB
Myth: the exciting joy of discovery!
Reality: oh look, another grant application form! And I have to get it counter-signed by that person who hates me because I was at the party where my supervisor's other grad student got drunk and vomitted on their shoes, but internal politics means they can't be touched, so of course I'm responsible for something they did...
Me? Bitter? Oh no, honest.
Reality: oh look, another grant application form! And I have to get it counter-signed by that person who hates me because I was at the party where my supervisor's other grad student got drunk and vomitted on their shoes, but internal politics means they can't be touched, so of course I'm responsible for something they did...
Me? Bitter? Oh no, honest.
Funny thing how what Dr. Henry Jones Jr. says about Archaeology
"Archaeology is the search for fact ... not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever, marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library."
―Indiana Jones
is more accurate than what the films actually portray...
"Archaeology is the search for fact ... not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever, marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library."
―Indiana Jones
is more accurate than what the films actually portray...
I'd take the mundane reality over the overblown, overhyped Hollywood version any day of the week, particularly for the fact that it's REAL. When it's real, it can be understood, mastered. When it's real, you can set your expectations accordingly.
Not to mention- and this is an important thing- this is something the real you does, something that you find beauty and worth in pursuing. I'm sure there's plenty to be said about the field I'd never have considered; to pursue a science takes a foundation of the mundane- only by that can life begin to be truly extraordinary, and not by some escapist fantasy.
Not to mention- and this is an important thing- this is something the real you does, something that you find beauty and worth in pursuing. I'm sure there's plenty to be said about the field I'd never have considered; to pursue a science takes a foundation of the mundane- only by that can life begin to be truly extraordinary, and not by some escapist fantasy.
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