Bluff Your Way in ArchaeologyLittle did ancient people suspect that the garbage they discarded would one day be resurrected by these scientific rag-and-bone merchants. |
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... Diggers or infantry - undergraduates , local con- victs or civilian volunteers are the cannon fodder , usually providing all the sweaty labour and kept in a state of blissful ignorance about what they are doing and why . Amazingly ...
... Diggers or infantry - undergraduates , local con- victs or civilian volunteers are the cannon fodder , usually providing all the sweaty labour and kept in a state of blissful ignorance about what they are doing and why . Amazingly ...
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... diggers secretly long to make an exciting find , a body perhaps or even some treasure . This is not advisable , however , as it can lead to visits by looters , or complaints and threats from local people who object to their ancestors ...
... diggers secretly long to make an exciting find , a body perhaps or even some treasure . This is not advisable , however , as it can lead to visits by looters , or complaints and threats from local people who object to their ancestors ...
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... diggers , attached to units run by regional authorities . Most of their work involves rapid excavation of sites that are threatened with imminent destruction by various causes . It there- fore entails little overall strategy : the stuff ...
... diggers , attached to units run by regional authorities . Most of their work involves rapid excavation of sites that are threatened with imminent destruction by various causes . It there- fore entails little overall strategy : the stuff ...
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What is Archaeology? | 5 |
Types of Archaeologist | 13 |
Rescue | 24 |
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