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franzboas:

can potsherds be a fandom

can we start a potsherd fandom

I don’t know about you guys, but I ship potsherds/atlatl

#POTLATL 

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I was talking to another archaeology major today about how I’m in self imposed poverty because I need money to go abroad and he goes, well we’ll all be in poverty eventually anyway you’ll just be ahead of the rest of us.

Sad sad truths.

Why do we do these things to ourselves again?

Sometimes I’m over come with emotion and feelings about Egyptology as a field and all the people involved with the past.

Remember when I said awhile back that all archaeologists marry other archaeologists or artists?

There’s a reason for that. 

I will very probably miss my brother’s graduation if I go to Egypt this summer, which I feel really guilty about already.

And I’m probably going to miss my cousin’s wedding because I’ll be abroad next year and can’t afford the over $2000 air fair to come home for it.  And it sucks because I haven’t been to wedding since I was about 8 and I was excited. 

Schliemann pretty much represents everything I love and hate about to popularization of archaeology.

Archaeology friend just offered to trade Mexican food, banjo lessons, or some weed in exchange for help in a math/science class.

fuckyeahanthropologymajorfox:

mylifeasasassymannequin:

#anthropologists are alcoholics #this is a repeating series apparently 

Wondrous tags on this post. I love Anthropology Major Fox. Because really, I feel this is a continuing joke for several reasons.

One, I remember reading for my archaeology class that a lot of the women who were forging the way for female archaeologists (and anthropologists) drank whisky straight from the bottle while they dug. Or perhaps whiskey. I don’t know if they imported their booze or compromised with American.

Two, we do have to bear the weight of the terrible history of our profession.

Three, it’s quite difficult to remove oneself from a group they are studying if you also belong to the group. Humans studying humans. I’m sure you’d be able to gain new insight into yourself (I know that’s true in my experience).

So, lots of stress and historical indicators. Those are my thoughts anyway.

A) I love that you love my tags, Jaye.

B) I agree with everything you said

jkdhgfsg

Number two.

Yes, 1000x yes.

Our history is like that awkward family relative who nobody likes but he has to be there anyway.