I just realized that over the course of this blog I posted "Serious Archaeologists drink coffee" three times. Guess where my priorities are (and what apparently I need more of).

Serious Archaeologists are off their nut.

Serious Archaeologists write term papers.

Past titles include


Living Outside the World:

Kubrick’s Bloody Black Box and the Humanity of Constructed Realities

Past fieldwork includes:

T's M, NM
The Dixon Archaeology Project, NM

Next up: 

More Dixon archaeology, December 2011! I only even try to contain my excitement when I'm in public. 

That's all, folks! At least all the quotes from this past summer, that is. I think I'll keep this blog for myself as a kind of ongoing scrapbook of my archaeological experiences, and I'm sure that come this winter I'll have more material about what serious archaeologists do and how, which I will type up if my fingers don't freeze and snap off in what I can only imagine will be a seriously cold December in New Mexico.

Serious Archaeologists carve sticks.

Er, wands, and duel in the forest.

Serious Archaeologists play the didgeridoo.

Serious Archaeologists are armed to the teeth.

Serious Archaeologists wash in the river.

Serious Archaeologists call their mothers.

Serious Archaeologists find trade beads.

Serious Archaeologists drink gin and tonic for breakfast.

Serious Archaeologists can start a fire with their minds.

Serious Archaeologists set up the T Station on the first try.

Serious Archaeologists start to think EVERYTHING is a lithic.

Serious Archaeologists eat drop bear steak/wear drop bear hats...mittens...you get the drift.

Serious Archaeologists are broke.

Serious Archaeologists get around to it eventually.

Serious Archaeologists scare the GOTB.

Serious Archaeologists stare into space.

Finger place.

Serious Archaeologists go to Walmart.

Serious Archaeologists meet Rummy.

Serious Archaeologists don't make capital.

Serious Archaeologists drink coffee.

Serious Archaeologists can get out of holes.

Serious Archaeologists get wet.

Serious Archaeologists drink coffee.

Serious Archaeologists can tune the radio.

Serious Archaeologists can crack a bullwhip.

Serious Archaeologists speak in dulcet tones.

Serious Archaeologists bathe in tears of joy at finding artifacts.

(Conversely, Serious Archaeologists don't bathe.)

Serious Archaeologists take a break.

Serious Archaeologists are Serious Business.

Serious Archaeologists are on Taos Time.

Serious Archaeologists have Taos Foot.

Serious Archaeologists clean ALL the things!

(Serious Archaeologists read Hyperbole and a Half).

Serious Archaeologists are Ashram Appropriate.

Daniel Jackson is a Serious Archaeologist. The seriousest!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Jackson_(Stargate)

Serious Archaeologists are always ready.

Serious Archaeologists catch lizards.

Serious Archaeologists replicate their data.

Serious Archaeologists don't kick the datum.

Serious archaeologists sharpen their trowels.

Serious Archaeologists drink coffee.

Her hair was like a rope what's woven from the raven's wing
It flowed like river water from her brow
Her eyes were two brown stones that twinkle underneath the water
Her voice moved as quickly as the Hondo...


He saw her and he longed for her, a flower in the desert
His name was gold and silver to the town
To this day who can say if love was written on her heart
All we know is that the flower got cut down.

--from The Ballad of Turley's Bride (a work in progress).

I come from the silence of clapboard houses
from a place that doesn't hurt but doesn't heal
for no soul longs to walk once more the streets of suburbia
no music grows within your heart when you are here

Serious Archaeologists are sexy.

Back to the grind.

"If you don't like my peaches
  Don't shake my tree"

--Tina and her Pony, at Eske's

Yesterday, it rained.

Hand of the Archaeologist

Bakers sift. Archaeologists screen.




(...This girl does both. And knows the effing difference.)

Serious Archaeologists do anything to preserve the wood.

(This one comes from Sev saying "do anything to preserve the wood!" as we extracted a beam from a post hole, which made this very Unserious Archaeologist giggle. Though not as much as when a visitor to the site later asked the hilarious question, "Did you get all that wood out of that hole?" ...Yes. Yes we did.)

I am the Prism Wizard!

Serious Archaeologists go to eleven.

Serious Archaeologists ride the Chupacabra.

Serious Archaeologists take sink baths.

Serious Archaeologists get lost in the sauce.

Serious Archaeologists are known unknowns.

Put a banana in your ear...

Serious Archaeologists can smell their pants.

Serious Archaeologists find Turley's gold.

Serious Archaeologists sure do have purdy mouths.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcqWyyHlCDA

Just like every cowboy sings a sad sad song.

Once, I lived by the river

I wake up to your simple song with each new morning
You sing me sleepward when the nighttime pulls me down...

I miss you, Hondo

So come and wrap your watery arms around me, river
And I'll forget that I ever loved another
You call me sweeter, hold me tighter, pull me under


And I miss your ice embrace within the desert

You're always changing 
in the same soothing formations

Someday steps will follow words and I'll return.

Well good!

"Oh, won't you meet me where the crazy horse catches your eye
where you can't fit any more dirt on me or more stars in the sky
my heart is full of joy sure as my feet are full of spines
for three short sweet weeks when the old mill I called mine"


--from "Meet Me At The Mill," an original song by a Serious Archaeologist [in training].

Serious Archaeologists do abs.

Seriously Important Fact: fresh-from-the-fryer handmade doughnuts only cost 70 cents at Michael's Kitchen. OH BOY!

http://www.michaelskitchen.com/

Serious Archaeologists eat...

homemade fish tacos
homemade pizza
pasta puttanesca
banana bread

peanut butter cookies

carrot cake

chana masala 

Serious Archaeologists trust what's in it and what's not in it.

Serious Archaeologists like the fish.

Serious Archaeologists do not Munsell their poop; however, the thought does occur to them.

Serious Archaeologists are 27.

(Miss you already, April!)

"Travellers ne'er did lie, though fools at home condemn 'em." (The Tempest, Act III Scene III). Hear, hear!

Serious Archaeologists don't give backtalk.

(Serious English Archaeologists don't give backchat.)

Archaeologists don't curse like sailors; sailors curse like archaeologists.

Serious Archaeologists absorb their nutrients from the dirt.