Mission: Excavation & Sample Retrieval
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2023
- I'm going back to the field sooner than expected. Not to Ur this time, but to the north of Iraq to work not only a different part of Mesopotamia, but also a different time period.
In this video I'll tell you about the plans while I pack for the trip, showing you some of the gear I typically take with me and use in the field. I'll also explain where I'm going and why. Plus, I might make a reference to Douglas Adams and/or Monty Python.
While I'm gone, I'll be gathering footage to make more videos, but I'm afraid there won't be much appearing here until I have a chance to do some editing.
I've been very impressed by the comments and suggestions on the videos and am pleased that so many are interested and contributing to the understanding by discussing and querying. This is how we learn, by building communities of interested people to think about things together. I'm very happy that the sort of community exists on RUclips.
Thanks to all of you!
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It's so interesting to follow what you do and how you do it, the level of information you provide about the simplest things really helps us to understand. Thank you, I can't wait to see what happens next.
I really appreciate your videos, thank you! Oh and I really enjoyed watching the collab with Miniminuteman.
I live about 70 miles from the Crow Canyon site! This is so awesome!
Have a safe trip, and an interesting one. I did like the "Hitchhiker's Guide" reference! I hope you don't run into a ravenous bug blatter beast of traal. But as long as you have your towel you'll be safe.
I'm so happy I discovered this channel. Can't wait for new videos once you're back!
I’m going on a dig this summer, this makes me so excited!
I am expecting. Thanks.
Going through/near Mosul? That's hardcore. Stay safe!
Have a safe and very enjoyable trip! Really looking forward to all the interesting cool stuff you'll have to show us when you get back. Would like to see a list of some of the reference material you'll be using; if you have recs for anything a moderately informed amateur could follow I'd love to learn more, the better to appreciate your future vids.
The references I've been reading for the trip are quite varied in time period since this site was dug often. Some are harder to find than others:
Layard, Austen Henry, 1853: Nineveh and its Remains (originally Layard thought Nimrud was Nineveh)
Mallowan, Max, 1966: Nimrud and its Remains
Reade, Julian, 2002: The Ziggurat and Temples of Nimrud, Iraq vol. 64
Hussein, Muzahim, Kertai, David, and Altaweel, Mark, 2013: Nimrud and its Remains in LIght of Iraqi Excavations from 1989-2002 in New Research on Late Assyrian Palaces (conference volume from Heidelberg 2011) Kertai and Miglus (eds.)
have a safe trip, and may you find great things!
This is so freaking cool, good luck and have fun!!!
Best of luck with your new adventure! I can't wait to see some videos on the ancient Assyrians!
Very exciting
The hat looks great, you almost look like Indiana Jones! Good luck with the excavation, I hope you find a lot of interesting things!
I wish u a nice trip!
Hearing that worn down trowels are a point of pride for some folks is just so endearing! Good luck on your trip, Im stoked to hear about whatever happens
They can become a true love-affair, but i imagine many people with fav tools do so. The initials thing also made me smile, lots memories... 😉
It's sounds super exciting! I wish I had a job that had lifelong learning(especially historical) built into it. The Ishtar Temple would be of particular interest to me I've been fascinated with Ishtar one because I've always loved ancient Egypt (I made the signature sugar cube pyramids for my TAG class in elementary school)their goddess Isis and because of the wonderful fiction of H. Rider Haggard and the larger then life Allan Quartermain. Then I became fascinated with Aphrodite and so on the goddess of love and things of that nature always made me happy that at least the men in the past realized you also needed some female representation in your pantheon.
Thank you for sharing your adventures
Have fun! Safe travels.
You have a awesome job.
wow! This is so exciting! I can’t wait to learn about the Assyrian’s from you. Why is it that further excavations at Ur were not approved for the immediate future? Hope you’re having a great time over there!
Conservation is more important right now. We shouldn't expose more buildings until the currently exposed ones are stabilized. And of course putting more attention into making a good and educational tourist experience is important.
Let us know what company makes your preferred notebook and I bet I can find a way to acquire a bunch of them fir you.
The ones I was using were Blueline SKU-A90 physics notebooks. I am now here at Nimrud and one of our people was working on the British training scheme and they had a lot of leftover notebooks that are very similar, so I'm somewhat resupplied.
@@artifactuallyspeaking Canadian here. I was also going to offer to buy some and send them on to you. Make sure to keep Becky and I in mind should you ever need to restock!! 😊
Oh wow Nimrud
Back in 2017 I did a term paper on the damage ISIS has done to archaeology and iirc Nimrud was heavily looted. Be very interesting to see how it looks now and what research can be done!
Yes, ISIS/Daesh did a lot of damage to the site. My first task in the Ishtar Temple is clearing away debris from the explosions and identifying where the ancient contexts begin.
@@artifactuallyspeaking well I hope that the damage was minimal and the excavation goes well!
I wish you the very best of luck on this trip, I hope you learn a lot, and that you share some of it with us! I never really thinkabout the logistics of "getting a sample tested". Therre's more to it than deciding that something needs dating, or having a chemical analysis done. Do you have relationships with specific labs? For example, do you send C14 for Oxford as part of an agreement, or are they just a good, competent and available testing facility for you to use? Do you use any others? I had a former life as an analytical chemist, so I am genuinely interested in these things!
We don't have specific agreements with any particular lab. We have used Arizona or Oxford in the past. They are both good labs.
You should do a video giving Milo a vest. He would like one from you I bet.
Nice towel reference!
You're coming here?! Enjoy your visit!
Ifffff you're in London, try and get to see doctor Irving finkel at the British museum!
I know Dr. Finkel. He's an interesting guy!
@@artifactuallyspeaking sadly I only know of him!
You are going to need a bigger broom 😅
man. I was trying to read about an assyrian king online the other day. I know wikipedia isn't a good site to source but its good for getting an overview quickly.
But somebody had spammed this random assyrian king's page with a picture of a whale
is iraq safe enough for independant tourist travel..i'd love to see the ziggurats ?
It is still a little difficult for an individual traveler. It's best to contact someone in the know, i.e. a good guide or tour company in the country that knows the ins and outs. And traveling with a group is often best at the moment. I believe it will continue to get easier and the ability to get a visa in the airport, only recently instated, was a good move in that direction.
Do you still visit Colorado sometimes?
I haven't been in a really long time. But I really enjoyed working there near Mesa Verde. I learned so much--it was the time at the end of my undergrad and I took a year before grad school to continue working there. It was my true introduction to fieldwork and I was taught by some of the best archaeologists I've ever met.