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What made you take up archaeology? - BAJR Host - 9th October 2008
Unit of One...
Archaeologist?? or master of the Obscure deviation ??
"Anyone who venerates things like contexts and sections ..." that would explain a lot!
"I don't have an archaeological imagination.."
Borekickers
What made you take up archaeology? - chiz - 9th October 2008
"Anyone who venerates things like contexts and sections ..." that would explain a lot!
"Rhodesia" explains a bit as well maybe?
Me? I got kicked out of school and there was a big job on. Better than apprentice chippy, or so I thought...
What made you take up archaeology? - Unitof1 - 9th October 2008
Just in case Greenwell is too obscure for you all, so you know, I like the succinct use of the word archaeologist of this current epitaph for Greenwell the best, try the archaeologist link to see if you are one. You will find no answers there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Greenwell
no vague heritage officer, site assistant, consultant charity fiddler, just archaeologist, no need of an ifa membership either
or you can go from here as the wiki Durham link does not seem to work
http://www.durham-pa.gov.uk/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PGlossary?readform&GLOSSARY=Greenwell,+William
What made you take up archaeology? - historic building - 9th October 2008
here it is: http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/?mode=project&id=266
None of the web pages seem to discuss his early involvement with evolution.
What made you take up archaeology? - Unitof1 - 9th October 2008
I must admit that I did not know that he was involved. I would have thought the Canon bit would have induced a certain party line not that that stopped Darwin.
What made you take up archaeology? - Dirty Dave Lincoln - 9th October 2008
my interest was kick started by my dads bed time stories about various mythical places like Troy,Mycenea etc and then having it explained that archaeology had proved they was real! Then when I was 16 after telling my careers teacher at school I wanted to be an archaeologist and getting laughed at and that I had no chance I gave up. Then when I was 20 I heard about the MSC and applied, for my very first interview I thought i'd make an effort (polished boots,clean jeans-even got me mum to iron them!and a plain t shirt),there was 5 other young men in the waiting room with their suits and ties on (looking down at me and s----------ing)who all got interviewed before me.So, finally got mine and there was 4 blokes also in suits and a field officer fresh from site-who took one look at me and said "unlike the others I can see you don't mind getting dirty" -the cheek! so much for tarting myself up! but I was the only one who got the job. The rest as they say is history:face-approve:
What made you take up archaeology? - Gog - 9th October 2008
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Unitof1
I must admit that I did not know that he was involved. I would have thought the Canon bit would have induced a certain party line not that that stopped Darwin.
Fancy not knowing that Canon Greenwell was involved in studying evolution - he was one of the big guns.
What made you take up archaeology? - achingknees - 9th October 2008
A visit to Kents Cavern aged 4. A book my parents gave to me aged 6 about discovering the past - esp. a story re French/Spanish (?) site with 2 boys rescuing a dog from a cave and discovering marvellous Upper Pal art (very Enid blyton). Climbing around Welsh Borders castles. Visit to Tunisia aged 9 or so - real archaeologists were digging, and one let me scrape soil off a mosaic (THAT WAS REALLY IT). Telly programmes in the 1970s - Horizon, something else with Leakey junior re hominid evolution. History teacher in first year at secondary school - we started with Stonehenge (not great, but not bad). I read a few Leonard Cotterill(?) books as a teenager - face of Agamemnon and all that stuff. Bottle digging Victorian dumps. Archaeology degree but with no thoughts of a career. Volunteering on sites over the summers and getting paid beer money (girls with mattocks, tanned and sweaty...I'll leave it there). Graduating and needing some dosh pdq - what can I do?? 80s MSC schemes - 1st job effectively supervising but paid less than the MSC intake. Few years on the circuit, no great ambition but realisation that I could do a better job than some of my supervisors. Met the archie partner 20 years ago and we're both stuck in it still.
Influenced by a swathe of 'ologists but too knacked to go there at this hour...
What made you take up archaeology? - Beardstroker - 11th October 2008
My dad was an archaeologist, so I grew up with finds being washed in the kitchen sink,the spare room full of drawings and trench books and summer holidays camping on site with a bunch of smelly, drunken old hippies.
I managed to have about 6 or 7 years doing something else before I got dragged into doing it professionally. It was only a six month temporary contract to tide me over initially. 25 years later
What made you take up archaeology? - trowelfodder - 13th October 2008
Had decided uni was the best way to move out of home town asap and was looking through courses a-z, needless to say didnt get very far!! Had no idea at all until that point that it was a real job and not just a passtime for posh people...
Hoped it would be a bit more indiana jones tho!
On a serious note though still love archaeology but not entirely shure i love being an archaeologist