No, not here, this is not the National Geographic Blog. Here, at the National Geographic Blog…But wait, don’t go there yet, I want to make a quick comment…With almost no exceptions, and one of those exceptions is a Pyramid, the finds that National Geographic sees as most important are dead bodies, often mummies, sometimes piles of skeletons.Is it possible, I ask you, that this is what archaeology is all about? No way, man! This is, perhaps what National Geographic, or the readers of National Geographic, is all about. And sure, this stuff is cool. But really, give me a break.Perhaps in the future National Geographic should consider breaking it down a bit differently. Like the way Time Magazine does it’s news stories of the year, NGS could use different categories. They could have a top ten in paleolithic archeology, a top ten in “origins and earliestest” finds (perhaps call that one “firsts and foremosts”), a top ten in “civilizations and their dusty-contents” and of course, one on “Top Ten Dead Guys and Gals: The More Gruesome the Greater.”I’m just sayin’[Hat Tip: Afarensis]

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