At a point in our history when science and fact are ignored, and academia derided, this type of video is sorely needed. Thanks. Looking forward to more.
First, I wanted to say how much I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and well... art of uncovering ancient times. I didn't know why I liked archeology. It's completly not my area - I'm a service tech. But those things have so much in common - we try to find out what happened and find reasons for all those events. When I do the maintenance of a working machine or inspect a machine after a crash, I work with the same senses - eyes, fingers, nose, ears. And the main one - my brain if I can make it to work 😉 I watch for differencies between still working machines and the one that broke down. You compare modern buildings to ancient ones. I try to feel jagged edges if something was torn by a big force. You do the same when you dig - feeling the texture of the material. I look for a smell of burnt equipment - overheated coils, melted plastic from covers. You look for the remains of a fire, kitchen, hearth. I try to hear a dull noise of a cracked rail, or a machine support. You hear a different sound when you dig through normal earth and a home wall. So different fields using such similar ways to investigate a mistery. I find it very interesting 😍 BTW I follow you since your colab with Milo. I think it was really wonderful. I hope for much more in the future!
The locals who are assisting in the dig, are they student/professional archeologists or paid laborers ? What do they think of the work you are doing overall ?
They are mostly paid workers, but a lot of them really enjoy this work and become more and more professional. We have one team leader on each team who is more specialized and gets paid more, and then with each larger excavation area we have an Iraqi archaeologist who works for the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and supervises overall.
Hmm, I always thought that "archaeological sausage" referred to _coprolites._ ;) For real, thanks for a taste of what goes on behind the scenes. Much more pleasant than old movies and documentaries show but still a lot of tough work.
Hehehe, good one! Personally I preffer “It's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.”
yyeess perfect. I have a dnd game coming up where there's gonna be some archeology. (and then absolutely zero realism lol they're gonna find an undead dragon)
I'm guessing theirs quite a few archeologists who at one time or another would like to take a pick to their sites 😊(Purely in the spirit of discovery you understand not out of frustration for months of toil to produce naught but a mouldy turd) ❤
Another job that turns out to be physically demanding. I’m a baker and people think it’s all decorating and arty, but really I spend a lot of time shifting 50# sacks of flour and sugar.
I think you need to invite some engineers to your digs. I can see a bunch of ways to improve things here. Probably the biggest thing I would suggest is to start experimenting with Ultrasonic Transducers. I'm not sure if you'd want to point them directly into the dig as, depending on what's there they might cause damage? Maybe not, you'd want to do some experiments to find out. But they'd break up those clods very easily. Those clods you're pulling out and then breaking apart... if you had a "Bin" with ultrasonic transducers in it, you could toss in the clods you were "pretty sure" contained nothing, with a screen underneath and the transducers would turn it all to dust that would fall through the screen pretty quickly, leaving anything you'd missed in the screen. If experimentation showed they were safe to use directly in the dig, you could go through the dig much much quicker. Its just that, if there was a chance there were "paper" type items or textiles, ultrasonic waves might damage them.
There is only a subtle difference between a fired mud brick or an unfired ceramic cuneiform tablet aged 2,800 years and the soil around it. You also want to know the exact location of the finds in the matrix of soil - so you don't want to go too fast and lose that context.
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Thank you for taking us behind the scenes, Doc.
At a point in our history when science and fact are ignored, and academia derided, this type of video is sorely needed. Thanks. Looking forward to more.
First, I wanted to say how much I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and well... art of uncovering ancient times. I didn't know why I liked archeology. It's completly not my area - I'm a service tech. But those things have so much in common - we try to find out what happened and find reasons for all those events. When I do the maintenance of a working machine or inspect a machine after a crash, I work with the same senses - eyes, fingers, nose, ears. And the main one - my brain if I can make it to work 😉
I watch for differencies between still working machines and the one that broke down. You compare modern buildings to ancient ones.
I try to feel jagged edges if something was torn by a big force. You do the same when you dig - feeling the texture of the material. I look for a smell of burnt equipment - overheated coils, melted plastic from covers. You look for the remains of a fire, kitchen, hearth. I try to hear a dull noise of a cracked rail, or a machine support. You hear a different sound when you dig through normal earth and a home wall.
So different fields using such similar ways to investigate a mistery. I find it very interesting 😍
BTW I follow you since your colab with Milo. I think it was really wonderful. I hope for much more in the future!
The locals who are assisting in the dig, are they student/professional archeologists or paid laborers ?
What do they think of the work you are doing overall ?
They are mostly paid workers, but a lot of them really enjoy this work and become more and more professional. We have one team leader on each team who is more specialized and gets paid more, and then with each larger excavation area we have an Iraqi archaeologist who works for the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and supervises overall.
I remember that specific Calvin and Hobbes strip! Thanks for this, real archaeology involves lots of patience and getting your hands dirty.
I really love all the background sound. It puts me there.
Loved this, thank you!
A slow & methodical task .
Wow ,I never thought of excavation as a work of art before
Cool to see your toolkit as well.
Hmm, I always thought that "archaeological sausage" referred to _coprolites._ ;) For real, thanks for a taste of what goes on behind the scenes. Much more pleasant than old movies and documentaries show but still a lot of tough work.
To paraphrase, poorly, the wonderful Terry Pratchett- "All Science is edible- some Science is only edible once."
(Mushrooms is the original quote)
Hehehe, good one! Personally I preffer “It's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.”
@@ogi22 ha!
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yyeess perfect. I have a dnd game coming up where there's gonna be some archeology. (and then absolutely zero realism lol they're gonna find an undead dragon)
Need the big mattock for that one. Preferably a legendary big mattock.
In most disciplines it is frowned upon to eat the science.
How do I get tenure to play in a sandbox? 100% better than my job for sure.
man, I wish I was an archeologist
I make pottery and a friend told me to touch a piece with my tongue if i'm not sure it has been fired :)
I'm guessing theirs quite a few archeologists who at one time or another would like to take a pick to their sites 😊(Purely in the spirit of discovery you understand not out of frustration for months of toil to produce naught but a mouldy turd) ❤
Another job that turns out to be physically demanding. I’m a baker and people think it’s all decorating and arty, but really I spend a lot of time shifting 50# sacks of flour and sugar.
"archeology involves all senses" please stop eating the artifacts :(
I think you need to invite some engineers to your digs. I can see a bunch of ways to improve things here. Probably the biggest thing I would suggest is to start experimenting with Ultrasonic Transducers. I'm not sure if you'd want to point them directly into the dig as, depending on what's there they might cause damage? Maybe not, you'd want to do some experiments to find out. But they'd break up those clods very easily. Those clods you're pulling out and then breaking apart... if you had a "Bin" with ultrasonic transducers in it, you could toss in the clods you were "pretty sure" contained nothing, with a screen underneath and the transducers would turn it all to dust that would fall through the screen pretty quickly, leaving anything you'd missed in the screen. If experimentation showed they were safe to use directly in the dig, you could go through the dig much much quicker. Its just that, if there was a chance there were "paper" type items or textiles, ultrasonic waves might damage them.
There is only a subtle difference between a fired mud brick or an unfired ceramic cuneiform tablet aged 2,800 years and the soil around it. You also want to know the exact location of the finds in the matrix of soil - so you don't want to go too fast and lose that context.