Most people who quit archaeology early because they think it's like Indiana Jones. But American archaeology is mostly digging holes and walking around surveying through all sorts of terrain and weather. If it's 100 degrees out and there's a survey job in a cornfield, still gotta do it. If the site that needs to be surveyed is behind thick prickly brushes that's really hard to maneuver around, still gotta do it and still gotta bring all the heavy equipments along.
@@yikemoo Yeah, I don't think people who get into archaeology actually think it is like being Indiana Jones. But I do think that some archaeologists are fans and I knew lots of students who wished it was like the movies :) Besides, I can't count how many people asked if it was like being Indiana Jones back when I was in the field. Almost as common as being asked what's the coolest thing I found.
@@Haraldr_Halfdan Maybe I'm being a needless poopy-pants here, sorry. If the point is that amateurs romanticize many professional fields, and especially one like archaeology, I wholeheartedly agree. Talk to any military pilot, even today, and they will acknowledge the original Top Gun as the single greatest recruitment tool the US Navy ever had a part in.
Great vid, when working in America on a ploughed field such as the one in the video, were the types of site found any different than in Ireland. As a student in archaeology in Ireland i usually find that the sites found here (which have been ploughed) were usually fulacht fiadhs, ring ditches, and ringforts.
Great question. Yes very different in my experience. The vast majority of the sites found were stop over camps not permanent settlements like a ringfort. They would simply be a scattered grouping of chert flakes that were the remnants of someone(s) just sharpening a tool but we wouldn't find the tool itself. Clearly they came from a tool as the chert flakes were often pink and so heat treated to make them stronger/harder. The sites were temporary and so we wouldn't find any remains of the settlement.
Very interesting piece of information. There is a lot of materials about effects of archeologists' work but very little how they do that on YT. Great! BTW. Recently in cinemas of US had premiere the new Polish move "The Peasants". I recommend you to watch it as a person who is into history. The move takes place in XIX Polish village before industrialisation and modernisation and based on Nobel prized novel of Władysław Reymont.
Glad you enjoyed it! I checked out the trailer and really like the style. Pretty cool how they did the drawn art overtop of the acted scenes. Thanks for the recommendation!
and don't forget those GPS back then could be off by up to a half mile but usually around 100 yards. I liked one time I used one of those hooked to a laptop map and it was saying I drove down the river the road went along lol or through farmers fields more often then not.
Yeah. Accuracy was a problem. I remember it was supposed to connect to 7 different satellites to be the most accurate while triangulating. You are right, there were times we would go back and load it into the computer and it would be off, so we would have to use the computer software and place it manually on the map.
Most people who quit archaeology early because they think it's like Indiana Jones. But American archaeology is mostly digging holes and walking around surveying through all sorts of terrain and weather. If it's 100 degrees out and there's a survey job in a cornfield, still gotta do it. If the site that needs to be surveyed is behind thick prickly brushes that's really hard to maneuver around, still gotta do it and still gotta bring all the heavy equipments along.
Yep, 100% true. Like most jobs you just do what needs doing, roll up your sleeves and get busy.
??? I’m sorry but I have never in my life met or heard of a student who got into archaeology thinking it would be like Indiana Jones.
@@yikemoo Yeah, I don't think people who get into archaeology actually think it is like being Indiana Jones. But I do think that some archaeologists are fans and I knew lots of students who wished it was like the movies :) Besides, I can't count how many people asked if it was like being Indiana Jones back when I was in the field. Almost as common as being asked what's the coolest thing I found.
@@Haraldr_Halfdan Maybe I'm being a needless poopy-pants here, sorry. If the point is that amateurs romanticize many professional fields, and especially one like archaeology, I wholeheartedly agree. Talk to any military pilot, even today, and they will acknowledge the original Top Gun as the single greatest recruitment tool the US Navy ever had a part in.
@@yikemoo Yep. I appreciate the dialogue and the engagement.
Great vid, when working in America on a ploughed field such as the one in the video, were the types of site found any different than in Ireland. As a student in archaeology in Ireland i usually find that the sites found here (which have been ploughed) were usually fulacht fiadhs, ring ditches, and ringforts.
Great question. Yes very different in my experience. The vast majority of the sites found were stop over camps not permanent settlements like a ringfort. They would simply be a scattered grouping of chert flakes that were the remnants of someone(s) just sharpening a tool but we wouldn't find the tool itself. Clearly they came from a tool as the chert flakes were often pink and so heat treated to make them stronger/harder. The sites were temporary and so we wouldn't find any remains of the settlement.
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Very interesting piece of information. There is a lot of materials about effects of archeologists' work but very little how they do that on YT. Great!
BTW. Recently in cinemas of US had premiere the new Polish move "The Peasants". I recommend you to watch it as a person who is into history. The move takes place in XIX Polish village before industrialisation and modernisation and based on Nobel prized novel of Władysław Reymont.
Glad you enjoyed it! I checked out the trailer and really like the style. Pretty cool how they did the drawn art overtop of the acted scenes. Thanks for the recommendation!
and don't forget those GPS back then could be off by up to a half mile but usually around 100 yards. I liked one time I used one of those hooked to a laptop map and it was saying I drove down the river the road went along lol or through farmers fields more often then not.
Yeah. Accuracy was a problem. I remember it was supposed to connect to 7 different satellites to be the most accurate while triangulating. You are right, there were times we would go back and load it into the computer and it would be off, so we would have to use the computer software and place it manually on the map.