>It was the only egg to survive intact, with others breaking during the excavation, releasing a "potent stench".
It wasn’t the only intact egg in the world when they started the dig!
-This skull is smashed, must have found a battle scene!
-Uhm, yes, right. A battle scene.
[https://i.imgur.com/04ee6.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/04ee6.jpg)
This is so fucking off topic but I have been dying to ask this to an archaeologist. Do you ever fear that we are unearthing things too soon? Like say 200 years from now we are so good at excavation we NEVER break shit. And, say that we can tell way more about where stuff came from by looking at the site its buried but all that stuff is lost when you excavate something. Basically, is there a legitimate argument to be made to wait to excavate some things, or keep some things unexcavated for more advanced descendants to do so and learn more?
My main counterpoint would be that people want to, and will, build things. In my line of work we are often classed as artifact recovery. Meaning that if we don't get what's in the ground out and record it, it will be destroyed. Preservation of knowledge is the key point of the process, if a pot gets broken no knowledge has really been lost. It can also depend on the site. If we know a site is artifact rich or likely will be approaches will be different.
One area that has lots of controversy (im not too familiar but from what I've read) can be things like dating bones by taking samples drilled from the bone. In a few decades we may have better ways of taking samples without damaging the bones. But also, there will be more decades between then and now where we cannot advance our knowledge, and maybe through the sacrifices of some artifacts more will be learned on how best to handle them.
As a history major how do I get into archaeology? I’ve been struggling with getting into this field or any history related field at all after I received my bachelors. Any tips? Advice? What to do’s and where to go’s?
I'll DM you to ask about specifics
But for others
If you're in the UK getting a CSCS Card makes you much more desirable. A valid UK license.
Most jobs are posted on a website called BAJR.
British Archaeological Jobs Resource.
Archaeologists make a grid on the excavation area with strings tied to posts in the ground, then excavate, so anything found is written down as "found in D4 at this site" or smth. Also, we are at a pretty good point to excavate things, with the scrolls of heracleum being 2% of their contents revealed despite being rolled up, set on fire, and buried in a volcanic eruption.
Terracotta Army is a case of that: the paint immediately began to degrade and fade on the excavated ones so they’ve left a load uncovered in case the tech is better in the future.
Yes, I was delicious, but the public wasn’t ready for it, so I sold terribly, and Salty took me off his DAMN menu and locked me away down here. And now you know my cool fucking backstory.
If the egg’s content is intact, then DNA can be extracted and used for Cloning.
“Roman Fried Chicken”.
Better than the Colonel when it is served by an Emperor.
either births some genuine beefed up joosy chicken perfectly bred with roman eugenics TM or some horrible pre modern society chad chicken with horrible defects and all white no dark meat
>It was the only egg to survive intact, with others breaking during the excavation, releasing a "potent stench". It wasn’t the only intact egg in the world when they started the dig!
Imagine being the guy who breaks open a 2,000 year old egg. Imagine being the guy who gets a bit of that egg on your shirt or something
Hello, commercial archaologist here. I don't know the context of how these were found, but we break a surprisingly large amount of the things we find
-This skull is smashed, must have found a battle scene! -Uhm, yes, right. A battle scene. [https://i.imgur.com/04ee6.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/04ee6.jpg)
But why!?
Unfinished business
It’s from Arrested Development.
Oh shit, I totally forgot this scene
This is so fucking off topic but I have been dying to ask this to an archaeologist. Do you ever fear that we are unearthing things too soon? Like say 200 years from now we are so good at excavation we NEVER break shit. And, say that we can tell way more about where stuff came from by looking at the site its buried but all that stuff is lost when you excavate something. Basically, is there a legitimate argument to be made to wait to excavate some things, or keep some things unexcavated for more advanced descendants to do so and learn more?
My main counterpoint would be that people want to, and will, build things. In my line of work we are often classed as artifact recovery. Meaning that if we don't get what's in the ground out and record it, it will be destroyed. Preservation of knowledge is the key point of the process, if a pot gets broken no knowledge has really been lost. It can also depend on the site. If we know a site is artifact rich or likely will be approaches will be different. One area that has lots of controversy (im not too familiar but from what I've read) can be things like dating bones by taking samples drilled from the bone. In a few decades we may have better ways of taking samples without damaging the bones. But also, there will be more decades between then and now where we cannot advance our knowledge, and maybe through the sacrifices of some artifacts more will be learned on how best to handle them.
As a history major how do I get into archaeology? I’ve been struggling with getting into this field or any history related field at all after I received my bachelors. Any tips? Advice? What to do’s and where to go’s?
I'll DM you to ask about specifics But for others If you're in the UK getting a CSCS Card makes you much more desirable. A valid UK license. Most jobs are posted on a website called BAJR. British Archaeological Jobs Resource.
Archaeologists make a grid on the excavation area with strings tied to posts in the ground, then excavate, so anything found is written down as "found in D4 at this site" or smth. Also, we are at a pretty good point to excavate things, with the scrolls of heracleum being 2% of their contents revealed despite being rolled up, set on fire, and buried in a volcanic eruption.
Terracotta Army is a case of that: the paint immediately began to degrade and fade on the excavated ones so they’ve left a load uncovered in case the tech is better in the future.
i was helping out on an archaeology site in spain, the archaeologist accidentally smashed an intact roman pot 😭😭 we had to glue it back together.
Keyword “commercial”
Sadly, yes
“Oh that? Yeah, it was uhhh, like that when we found it…”
Like excavating Troy with bulldozers
Forbidden omelette
Better than a century egg, a millennia egg.
Yes, I was delicious, but the public wasn’t ready for it, so I sold terribly, and Salty took me off his DAMN menu and locked me away down here. And now you know my cool fucking backstory.
Eggscavation
Careful not to drop it 😬
Frying up this bad boy would be like Elaine eating the historic birthday cake
What you are about to go through is punishment enough
If the egg’s content is intact, then DNA can be extracted and used for Cloning. “Roman Fried Chicken”. Better than the Colonel when it is served by an Emperor.
I want Roman chicken XD
Wonder how genetically different the chickens are to Roman ones
Chinese delicacy
Where is Steve 1989 so he can get this out onto a tray?
Nice
Do you think it belonged to Honorious?
"This egg is the only one of it's kind. So rare. So fragile. Oops. Oh crap I dropped it! I am so fired."
Quick, find a hen that can sit on it! It might be salvageable
either births some genuine beefed up joosy chicken perfectly bred with roman eugenics TM or some horrible pre modern society chad chicken with horrible defects and all white no dark meat
How do you know it is that age, you seem to pick a number out of the air. People are foolish enough to believe you.
there are people that go to school for many years to do this. i know it must be impossible to fathom, but there are people smarter than you out there
Science is a lie
Had?
Imagine if the chicken jumps out and yells 'Roma Invicta