archaeological dig things

anthropologicaloctopus:

cnemrys:

So i just got back from my very first dig with my uni and these were some notable moments:

• The lecturer gave the introduction briefing while drinking a beer
• “We have two rules in archaeology, the first is dON’T DIE”
• “Whoever has the best selfie with Gary the Goat at the end of each week gets a free chocolate bar”
• Lab Supervisor: “I don’t do as much licking these days”
• *quietly singing macklemore’s thrift shop at 10pm on the campsite*
• Supervisor, suggestively: “no one will ever touch that dirt the same way you have. You have a very intimate relationship with that dirt”
• Lecturer: “Can we name the trenches after teenage mutant ninja turtles?”
• Student to Lecturer: “Do you need a hand?”
  Lecturer to Student: “No, I need a brain”
• Supervisor: “Trench D will now be known as the Shit Pit”
• Particular student working the Shit Pit is known as the ‘Poo Princess’
• Archaeologist pick up lines, eg. “Are you a munsell chart? Because I wanna do you outside”
• Zinc warpaint
• Trench games
• “Anyone caught stealing pencils will be fed to Gary the Goat!”
• “Wanna come see my hole?”
• A whole list of people banned from writing in lowercase because the supervisor can’t read their writing (I’m on that list)
• #scrotum tree
• Replacing “CLEAR UP YOUR LOOSE” with “BRING OUT YER DEAD!” followed by banging shovels together
• Forming a cult
• “Listen to your Cult Mother! You’re being an isosceles!”
• Playing Horrible Histories and Disney songs while scrubbing finds
• Lab Supervisor: “Wait, let the Trench Demons get their equipment”
• Lecturer in Week 3: “Why aren’t (the trenches) named after teletubbies?”
• Student 1 (brushing glass): “Hey, glass me”
  Student 2 (brushing bone): “Hey, bone me”
• “Brush me like one of your french shells”
• One of the supervisors is named ‘Trench Daddy’ in the group chat

This is why archaeologists are labeled the insane anthropologists.