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May 30, 2008
The Dirt on Geologists, Anthropologists and Archaeologists
By way of Afarensis, I just read a hilarious tale from the Johannesburg paper, The Star. Chris Rowan posted it at Highly Allochthonous. While a story is of a supposed attempt to produce a "Survivor" like TV show about geologists, it also addresses how palaeo-anthropologists might be more interesting. Part of the piece reminded me of my short experience in field archaeology.
Glenn C Conroy, a professor of palaeo-anthropology . . . at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, told me about a cannibal restaurant that charged four times as much for cooked palaeo-anthropologists as it did for cooked missionaries.Asked why, the chef said, "Have you ever tried to clean an anthropologist?"
The only context in which I remember hearing the word "grungy" was at shower time at Gezer in the early 1970s. Some time ago, I wrote a post about the joys of a real archaeological camp.
Posted by Duane Smith at May 30, 2008 7:34 PM | Read more on Humor |
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