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[Tool]

Not nearly enough arguments lately, so time for some more questions:

1. Why do archaeology?
   
2. Why do you do archaeology?
   

Don't let me down folks, I love the ermmm... discussions... that sometimes erupt on these forums. Or is that fora?

[BAJR]

This has been the first post to head over to Facebook automatically.. as I try and link the two more seemlesly.... here is what you got... :0

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  Liz Tideswell Keeps me out of prison.
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  Douglas Scott I don't agree with you.
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  Fran Keeling for the money and fame
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  Liz Tideswell Why ye bas . . . . it's on, Dougie!!
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  Jane Summers Love the thrill of the chase, I am left with more questions than answers and with the very odd exception, the people you meet are amazing!
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  Jeff J. Dobson Someone's feeling chipper and cruisin' for a bruisin' on a Friday night. :<>
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  Ed Grenier Fortune and glory, kid... fortune and glory
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  Claire Taylor Because you never know what your going to find
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  Paul Blinkhorn It's better than working for a living
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  Geoff Carver I don't any more; too old, too overqualified; too many publications.
  I trained to do GIS, but there was no market for that, so I went to digitizing in CAD, then mapping databases to CIDOC-CRM, but there's no demand for that either, any more
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  Claire Taylor Paul I work as well
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  Douglas Scott I was born curious and want to know the why of everything. Being an archaeo-astronomer, I actually get to see the solar/lunar events our ancestors aligned their monuments to, but all I can do is speculate as to the why, as no one seems to understand what the hell I'm talking about, laughing.
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  Pete Missingham Q3. Who is the audience?
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  Liz Tideswell Sigh, Badger. Tries to start a fight and passes out on the cough syrup before we even get going . . .
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  Jeff J. Dobson It was all that dancing beforehand, I reckon.
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  Lupe Gonzalez To get as far away from home as I can for a little while.
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  Jeff J. Dobson Well, that and the cough syrup. :<>
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  Cath Mackley just like to know what went on before I was here, been like that for 40 years, We're all good dancers too
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  Liam Collins The aliens forced me into it via Zarkon rays from orbit.
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[Jack]

Not nearly enough arguments lately, so time for some more questions:

1. Why do archaeology?
   
2. Why do you do archaeology?
   

Don't let me down folks, I love the ermmm... discussions... that sometimes erupt on these forums. Or is that fora?

knowledge is power.

Ultimate knowledge is ultimate power

But through understanding is gained the ability to judge

The only way to understand is to look at something from a long enough timescale

The path to ultimate understanding lies within archaeology/palaeontology/geology....xenogeology....xenoarchaeology....etc etc

but a time machine helps

[barkingdigger]

1. It's good for the soul

2. It keeps me away from FaceAche and Twatter!

(Old enough to remember when "social media" was an invite to the pub!)

[Jack]

1. It's good for the soul

2. It keeps me away from FaceAche and Twatter!

(Old enough to remember when "social media" was an invite to the pub!)

like :-)
#pub

[P Prentice]

Not nearly enough arguments lately, so time for some more questions:

1. Why do archaeology?
   
2. Why do you do archaeology?
   

Don't let me down folks, I love the ermmm... discussions... that sometimes erupt on these forums. Or is that fora?

1. because we are human
2. aspiration maybe

[pdurdin]

1. Fun.
2. I like having fun.

[Tool]

Good answers, and no controversy. Amazing!

And yes barking, the pub is by far the best social media!

[Hamish]

1. I sometimes wonder..

2. Curiosity

[Tool]

Hi Hamish. Just to freak you out, I think we have met. But to keep the element of suspense which sustains every story, I won't say where. }

It's odd in a way that the first question seems harder to answer than the second. We all have our individual reasons for doing archaeology, and I can associate with every answer given on that one. But, the justification for archaeology as a practice does seem a little harder to pin down.