Comments on: The Personal Benefits of Doing Archaeology: Subversive subsurfaces. https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/ Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:51:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Monica Chavez https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-596369 Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:51:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-596369 You make a great point that with archaeology wherever you look, what you see is not what you get. That must make it a really interesting field to study, since you’re always discovering new things. I wonder what types of projects archaeologists typically work on.

]]> By: savanah https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491961 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:37:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491961 this thing helped my figure out that i like to waTCH GAY PORN THANK YOU

]]> By: Lesley Arrowsmith https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491960 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:19:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491960 Thanks – this is the best article I’ve ever read about why archaeology is important!

]]> By: GregLaden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491959 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:40:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491959 I would be careful about what you think I don’t know about geology!

But yes, here are large areas of geology that I know little about. I don’t kid myself.

]]> By: CherryBombSim https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491958 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:47:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491958 I do agree with you about the “seeing” thing. I imagine archaeology is a lot like geology in that respect. It’s a matter of getting the education and then seeing case history after case history until you develop an intuition about what to look for. Show me a bunch of pottery shards, and to me, it will look like…..broken pottery. I don’t have the background to “see” it meaningfully. Likewise, don’t kid yourself about being an expert geologist. You do know more about it than most anthropologists/archaeologist than I have run across, though.

]]> By: Martin R https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491957 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:48:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491957 when I’m standing around somewhere outside, anywhere in the world, with a bunch of people who are not archaeologists, I am seeing, knowing, understanding things about which they are clueless. Like a mystic who sees an aura and thus knows things about a person that even the person does not know, an archaeologist sees things about a landscape that others can not see but that still have important meaning. Except the mystics are faking it

Well said!

]]> By: GregLaden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491956 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:59:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491956 I know, right??

]]> By: CherryBombSim https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491955 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:56:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/20/the-personal-benefits-of-doing/#comment-491955 “I’ve had to become an expert on everything that there is to be an expert on, and I can tell you it is quite a burden.”

Oh, my!

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