#archaeology problems

[ochipi]

Weird things I have done as an archaeologist

Washing cannonballs

Comparing human leg bones to my leg

Balancing knee caps to see if they’re left or right

Smashed my head on a drill handle while I tried to look cool dropping 3 meters of stainless steel down a hole

Trying to rescue mice out of the trench using a shovel and screaming how you’re trying to help

Glass still cuts skin, even after 500 years. And me being the dumbass I am to swipe my finger across to clean it

Getting distracted because you’re convinced these two pottery shards match in some place

Pushing my thumb into the decorative indentation a potter has made 300 years ago cuz I’m still a child

Trying to match shoe prints to one of your colleagues

Surely google knows the brand name on this 100 year old shoe shine can

#archaeology #history #meme #history meme #archaeology meme #glass #pottery #pottery shards #skeleton #human skeleton #Indiana Jones #shoe prints #anthropology #anthropology meme #geography #paleontology #European archaeology #geology #archaeology problems

[chaotic-archaeologist]

#archaeology #archaeology humor #archaeology discourse #archaeology problems #tenths of feet

[ancientstone]

the harris matrix chart is a sub-species of biblical angel

#tell me i'm wrong #how do i tag this lol #archaeology #archaeology humor #archaeology problems #archaeology humour #harris matrix #harris matrix chart #written in stone

[stoneagefairy]

Being an archaeologist just after the digging season is dangerous for your mental health, actually

#no but honestly septembers are so weird #for archaeology students #not studying yet but walking around the house like some ghost in a flannel shirt with no Current Mission(tm) #dig is over you just have some stupid part time job #too much time to overthink all your archaeological existence #ok that's been a vent #archaeology problems #archaeology

[hylianengineer]

The archaeology building smells like skunk today. We don't know why. But it's pungent.

#hylian rambles #college life #archaeology problems

[digging-time-w-kaz]

There is a dead cow at the gate where we enter to access our site. It is smells so bad and the cow probably won’t be removed for awhile. And someone (normally our excavation supervisor ) has to get out and open the gate to let the vans in and out. Which led to these photos (I promise there is no dead cow in these)

#archaeology #fieldwork #archaeology problems #tw animal death

[state-of-franklin]

Petition to spell archaeology with an ash

Archæology

#or would it be archælogy #idk man #i think it would help #or just be a little silly funny #archaeology humor #archaeology #archaeology problems #spelling

[aandvarchaeology]

Worst way to find out you've got loam in your trench is to stick your trowel into the earth and think "fuck"

#archaeology problems #mod a #in other news fourth week of excavation is going well!

[sud-e-magia]

Busted my ankle something fierce yesterday on the tailgate of the work truck and it still hurts to walk on but it's not a dull constant ache anymore

#archaeology #archaeology problems

[ochipi]

Weird thing I have done as an archaeologist 2

Teaching students how to describe soil colors, but you’ve got no clue what greyish-brown or brownish-grey is yourself

I’ve probably eaten dead Roman

Trowel throwing competitions

Giving names to skeletons you’re excavating

You’re on a constant field walk. Architecture, place names, street signs... You spot it all

Comparing weather app predictions with your colleagues

Collecting pretty stones, preferably quartz or silex

Being very possessive over a shovel

Trying to find north without a compass so the lot of us are standing there hoping the sun breaks through

Bonus addition: I’ve seen plenty of archaeologists who collect broken bits of ceramic smoking pipes and they hold competitions to who has more, measured by weight

#archaeology #history #indiana jones #archaeology problems #archaeology meme #geology #archaeology stereotypes #archaeology humor #field archaeology #field archaeologist #geology meme #history meme #ancient egypt #ancient rome

[chaotic-archaeologist]

🚨THERE IS A SQUIRREL IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY LAB I REPEAT THERE IS A SQUIRREL IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY LAB 🚨

#he speaks #archaeology #archaeology problems #squirrel in the archaeology lab

[ego-sum-arbor]

Somebody broke one of the dining hall plates behind the geology building and I am NOT collecting all the sherds (are the sherds if it’s like melamine?) and trying to crossmend them

#I am not doing this #I have things I need to do #some of my classmates in an arch class think the sherd/shard distinction is weird and unnecessary #they’re clearly wrong bc social signaling through field specific jargon is cool and fun #archaeology problems #my blather

[micewithknives]

As requested, the list of archaeology nemeses which i poses: (in no particular order other than #5 bc tumblrs formatting hates me right now, and i cant be bothered to fix it)

Whoever convinced the general public that archaeologists and paleontologists are the same thing (not the public themselves, i can be nice to them, but whoever started it.............. i just want to talk)

Trying to excavate in dry soil with high sand content and having sediment patches just... leak out in random spots from the pit walls

Cant Function A Mattock To Save My Life

Sieving wet clay is like sieving porridge and its TERRIBLE and HORRIBLE and DISGUSTING and makes HORRENDUS SOUNDS

As discussed, Munsell chart and my complete and utter inability to read colours correctly

Any varient of the "The archaeologists didnt figure this out it was some Normal Person Who Knows Crafts And Life Skills" my Dear Personal Friend i hate to rain on your anti-academia parade, but archaeologists ARE people (although jury's still out on normal for some of them...)

#i hope these are sufficient for six of my archaeology nemeses #i will hear criticism #but i will take none of it #archaeology #archaeologist problems #theres a mouse loose in a hospital

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

We’re all just sherds sitting in a bucket of water waiting to get scrubbed clean…

#feeling a little too existential today maybe #archaeology #pottery #sherds #archaeology problems

[digging-time-w-kaz]

Being an archaeology major is all fun and games until you have to identify archaeological sites using Google earth

#archaeology #archaeoblr #archaeology problems

[thearchaeologicalwitch]

#archaeology #anthropology #archaeologist problems #sharable #holy fuck we gotta give that shit back #fuck the british museum