Welcome to Undead Naked Archaeology

Alright, a quick introduction, scroll down for actual posts:

This is where I'll update what I'm up to in the field, post pictures, or just vent about how much I hate poison ivy.

Why Undead Naked Archaeology? It's pretty simple really...I like zombies. But also, archaeologists have a bunch of striking similarities to zombies.

We often are dressed in tattered/worn clothing. We frequently smell bad. I in particular tend to speak in grunts (especially in the morning). Often as the heat scrambles our brains we shamble about muttering incoherently. We crave delicious brains. We also swarm like zombies...in a phase I archaeology project we're scattered widely, low density (just like a stage I zombie outbreak). When something shows up...we go to phase II. Denser...and with more of us. Again, like a zombie outbreak reaching stage II. Finally, as we find "stuff" supervisors and technicians alike come out of the woodwork to absolutely flood the field with zombies. I mean archaeologists. Mmm stage/phase III.

As for the "naked" part...well it just sounds cool...that's all. "Undead Naked Archaeology" sounds like those lame "co-ed naked xyx" shirts. So I'm kind of making fun of myself...I do that sometimes.

Posts below!

Friday, June 26, 2009

It's so hot out

How hot is it?

It's so hot out that our tarps were melting. Mmm melty plastic-y gooey artifacts! I'm not actually joking, or griping. Honest injun' I looked at one of the tarps we'd put out when we went to lunch and in the 30 minutes (okay, hour...or 2) the edges had turned into a sticky tar-like substance. As plastic is a petroleum product, I can probably call it "tar" and not just "tar-like."

Machine stripped the site today, and things went pretty smoothly in fact. Found a series of stains where we'd expect them based on previous excavations, although not as many as we'd hoped/feared. While on the face of things that is rather disappointing, it should make the summer more manageable, and in a selfish sense give me more time to track down mud.

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