Archeology: I'm Missing the Big Dig
Jim says he’s having a case of Dig Deprivation. It’s a malady of his own invention, to be honest, describing a particular from of longing that involves travel to Scotland (of course.) It infects, he says, "only people who have traveled to Orkney, those Scottish islands in the North Sea, in July and August during an archeological dig there. The cure is in just one place, exactly 4,129 miles from where I sit.”
Jim describes summer days at the Ness of Brodgar, a Neolithic dig site he covered for National Geographic and which (evidently) really got under his skin. Read on to discover the deep attraction of poking into the lives of people now gone for 5,000 years and the thrill of hanging around with nerdy, gregarious archeologists bent on digging up all the poop. Indiana Jones should have had it so good.
Jim describes summer days at the Ness of Brodgar, a Neolithic dig site he covered for National Geographic and which (evidently) really got under his skin. Read on to discover the deep attraction of poking into the lives of people now gone for 5,000 years and the thrill of hanging around with nerdy, gregarious archeologists bent on digging up all the poop. Indiana Jones should have had it so good.