Archaeology is a serious discipline, focused on minutiae and methodical examination of the ordinary odds and ends of life. It is a slow process of discovering truths about the past while respecting the present. It is deliberate and not at all dramatic.
Archaeology – and its cousin palaeontology – was not always like this. Its past was a lot more swashbuckling, and had a lot more imperialism and a lot less intellectual rigour. But it makes for much better cinema.
June 12, 1981, saw the …
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