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Not everyone understands the importance of archeology. 🙂

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This is from Viz magazine. Don't worry, they're taking the piss.

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As a former archaeologist. there is a reason for their carefulness., something called provenance. It is anything but cushy. Low pay, extreme elements, summer and winter. Moderate to primitive living conditions. I loved it while I was involved for a decade, but it took a toll on my body and contracts became more difficult to acquire. You are generally working on soft money which is precarious from year to year.

t1nick Level 8 Jan 9, 2020
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Gosh, where is the tongue in cheek emoji when you need it?
There is definitely a segment of the population that doesn't appreciate what can be learned from archeology but there is also a fair bit of jiggery pokery that goes on with most digs as well. I had a girlfriend who studied archeology and there was a lot of jiggery pokery going on in the showers and tents for some of these isolated digs. Then there was the skull my excavator operator pulled up in the bucket as we dug a foundation for a seaside mansion, the hew and cry was horrific, the Royal Archeology Society was called in all work was halted, the neighbours where about to lose their ocean view did everything possible to shut down the construction project and the local native band held a news conference decrying the desecration of their band's graveyard.
After almost a year of jiggery pokery, the project went ahead, the graves turned out to be the remains of slaves that had been dumped in the native garbage dump, the neighbours who never paid for the free view, lost it and the mansion was completed in good time except for the delay of the dig. The owner who was a QC, successfully sued the Archeology Society for unnecessary disruptions and delays, the police were called in several times on nuisance complaints, nothing of any consequence was learned, except that the lovely young archeologist got knocked up by the head of the dig, her husband divorced her and the head of the dig denied all knowledge.

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A bulldozer could help....?!???.....NOT!

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He's obviously a Boris supporter..

Charlene Level 9 Jan 9, 2020
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Lol

bobwjr Level 10 Jan 9, 2020
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Look at it this way. If you were a petrified set of skeletal remains, that dated back many thousands, or millions of years; wouldn't you want them uncovering you with toothbrushes, trowels, and fine-tooth combs, as opposed to say, sledgehammers, picks, and dynamite?

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