Archaeologists make music about archaeologists and archaeology. Here’s one you might like:
Do the archaeologist by Andrew Reinhard
Archaeologists make music about archaeologists and archaeology. Here’s one you might like:
Do the archaeologist by Andrew Reinhard
The Land of the Summer People (2014- ongoing) is an art-science research collaboration between the artist Seila Fernández Arconada and Prof Thorsten Wagener of the Water and Environmental Engineering Research group at the University of Bristol, UK
Project blog for Dan Lee and Antonia Thomas
The Archaeological Eye
Our collaboration wishes to construct an active approach to ruins in non-urban environments. Over the winter, spring, summer and fall 2015, we will focus our attention on a serie of wartime architectural remains in the surroundings of London, in the Thames estuary and along the East coast of Britain. Access, function and the traces of human activity, are central to our project. Lia Wei is an art historian and archaeologist, focusing on epigraphy and rock-cut architecture. She was brought to academic research through the practice of calligraphy, landscape painting and seal carving in China. Rupert Griffiths is a cultural geographer whose work focuses upon marginal urban landscapes. He came to geography through a background in architecture and as a practicing artist, creating trajectories between built form, materiality, landscape and identity.
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We do not use a whip,
and we don’t have guns equipped.
X is never on the map.
That is just a load of crap.
Instead we dig a trench,
moving soil by the inch,
sifting everything we see,
recording each and every piece.
Archaeologists don’t dig up dinosaurs,
We’re picking up the pieces from some long-forgotten wars.
Don’t take a souvenir,
but you can take a level here.
Don’t forget the scale
when you photograph that nail.
Don’t be such a cock
when you’re asked to clean the baulk.
Don’t be such a dick
when it’s your turn to swing the pick.
Archaeologists don’t dig up dinosaurs.
We don’t know where Atlantis is down on the ocean floor.
We don’t know where Jesus lived or if there was a Trojan War.
All we know is that we’ll never know for sure.
We’re in the library, the classroom, and the lab,
our careers are in ruins, but we think that’s pretty fab.
We spend time reading books
at our desks or on our nooks.
We write more of the same
so we can make ourselves a name.
Some of us can code,
and our data we upload.
Some of us are just Old School:
our computers, unused tools.
Archaeologists don’t dig up dinosaurs.
Ain’t no ancient astronauts or aliens that came before.
We’re not raiding tombs or hunting for some crystal skulls.
Give us sherds or bones or stones to document in full.
We’re in the library, the classroom, and the lab,
our careers are in ruins, but we think that’s pretty fab.
But sometimes we get lonely.
Archaeologists need dates.
If you’re a little older,
well that’s pretty freakin’ great.
We like getting dirty,
and we do it in holes.
We’re into photography.
We take really good notes.
Every season, we go nuts.
Every trench becomes a rut.
Hooking up with people who
we’d normally not screw.
But it’s science that we love
and history we’re thinking of.
So let’s find another site
so we can excavate it right.