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!

Monday, July 27, 2009

A Hard Day's Day

Did you ever watch Dexter's Lab as a kid? Well if you did you're familiar with his phrase "Today is a fine day for science." If you're a bit of a nerd for the show you'll also remember the episode where nothing he does works out correctly and he concludes "Today was not a fine day for science." It's quite an entertaining episode.

Today was not a fine day for science after all.

To begin with, I snapped each of my bootlaces (one of them twice). I lost all my maps to a rogue breeze and then the creek before I'd even gathered one sample. Everywhere I looked was either hosed, a town, lacking clay, or the freaking Caesar Creek Dam (which is all sorts of disruption to the landscape). My primary GPS went down. I ran out of batteries for my backup.

And I just realized something really went wonky on one of my data collection trips (as well as some disagreements between my two GPS units). If what I recovered is correct (As near as I can reason out) I'm not in "good" shape, but at least I'm in "not totally fucked" shape. I guess I can redo some of this stuff from a land based survey and get back to where I thought I was (the problem is that I'm starting to run out of time...).

Grr.

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