Given enough time, a hypothetical chimpanzee typing at random would, as part of its output, almost certainly produce all of Shakespeare’s plays. If you’ve not got that long to wait, this book is the next best thing. Immortal, and completely bananas.
Category: Features
Sex!
Ignoring Captain Boner and the topsoil strippers for a moment, there’s something odd about this photo that I can’t quite put my finger on. It features this years winning entry to the ‘2009 Sexiest Field Crew’ competition - a global search led by sexyarchaeology.org to find the new vanguard of dirty pretty things destined to inherit the earth.
Riders on the storm
It’s a common misconception that the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. In fact that’s a lie.The rain in Spain falls mainly in Ireland. Thanks a million Amigos!
And just as Eskimo’s have 17 thousand different words for snow, field archaeologists have at least double that number for rain. From the tundra-cold sideways strain, to the fine micro drizzle that gets you wetter than if you’d jumped headfirst into a lake, the archaeological palette is finely tuned to rain’s many qualities of wetness. Read more
The Unrepeatable Experiment
There’s an enduring myth that archaeology is an ‘unrepeatable experiment’, a bit like loosing your virginity with a sheep. Or perhaps that description just applies to people with a speech impediment.
‘What do you do?’
‘I’m an Archie… Acheu… I dig up old stuff.’ Read more