Archaeology in general Reviews

Let me get one thing straight before I start. I love archaeology and in terms of the passion that it still stirs in me (even after 6 years of study, 4 years of struggling to find work and £20,000 of debt!!) I really cannot regret having chosen to study it. It is like a drug that runs through my veins even though I have not been able to work in ...  Read the complete review

I suppose it was a moment of madness when I sat down and wrote the word 'archaeology' on my UCAS form. I still can't quite explain it. After all, I had never had any particular interest in archaeology, but I suppose it all came about from the fact that my soul was divided between studying arts or sciences. I wanted to study science, but I didn't ...  Read the complete review

Today you get to hear about my job. I am an Archaeologist. Presently I am excavating a 3rd century AD Roman port in Varna on the Black Sea in Bulgaria and teaching a few odd history courses at the University in Sofia. It has been a long and interesting road. I guess I was just lucky to have parents who supported all of my academic ...  Read the complete review

Modern archaeologists must groan and tear their hair when they contemplate the way their profession was undertaken in the past. It was crude, clumsy, destructive, more akin to grave-robbing or coal- mining than to a delicate, precise science that precedes by millimetres and years, seeking to extract every possible piece of information from the way ...  Read the complete review