Real Archaeology: How is it Done?
4 weeks ago
Friday, January 30, 2009
Winter in Montreal and the life archaeological
Day before last, we received another 23cm of snow in my fair city. The resulting digging and shoveling gave me a rare occasion to use skills I usually put into use mostly during the summer months, when I'm working in the field... but then I realized something.... do you know how to tell you have archaeologists living on your block after a snowstorm? You look for the car that's been dug out and looks like it's sitting in an excavation unit!
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Wow! You shoulda been in Seattle, a week before Christmas! We had a snowstorm like that then. Worse, the snow just kept coming. But then, unlike in Montreal, we're snow wimps out here(and heat wimps, too), so we're not used to it. So I guess it would be hard to tell if an archaeologist is living on our block. Oh, I take that back. . . it might be possible to tell if an earthquake hit us and he or she had to dig their car out of the rubble(hint: we have a bunch of fault lines running through Our Fair City, and they're, um, very active!).
Anne G
So when are you going to backfill it? :)
- Steve
Hahahah. look how straight those walls are.
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