This past week, I\u2019ve learned a lot about my physical abilities and limits in particular. To begin, I\u2019m learning that I\u2019m a lot stronger than I believed I was. I\u2019ve done some weight training in the past focusing on arms, but aside from that haven\u2019t really had a chance to test the limits of my strength. Additionally, though this doesn\u2019t surprise me, I find I really enjoy carrying the big rocks out of my unit. I love Rock Days, as I\u2019m sure some others can agree, and I jump on the opportunity to see if I can lift a heavy rock. I think my reputation has been solidly cemented as 6B\u2019s most enthusiastic fan of Rock Day\u2026.. I\u2019m looking forward working on increasing my strength both during the rest of the dig and hopefully at St. Olaf as well. Conversely, I\u2019m also beginning to reach some of my physical limits. In particular, I find that while working on passes and doing work on site that requires less standing and moving around, my knees and ankles get really sore, which has been frustrating because the best pose for daily work is the classic archaeology squat. However, I\u2019ve been getting used to it, and find that stretching and this past Sunday\u2019s yoga session have been very helpful for dealing with this.
My thoughts about archaeology and archaeological work have certainly changed since the first day. As other people have mentioned, I didn\u2019t expect working on site to require so much physical activity, and that even doing regular passes is physically taxing. Archaeological work on site is also more ambiguous, so to say, than I expected. For instance, our unit has some suspiciously stacked rocks that SEEM to be a wall of some sort, but the continuity (or lack thereof) of those stones is perplexing, making it difficult to determine which rocks can and cannot be removed. However, these types of problems (figuring out whether to remove one specific rock) are not necessarily large enough to drag Tim over to answer every single time, so it requires critical thinking and decision on the part of our team to decide what to do. Though this can be stressful, because there\u2019s always the possibility of making the wrong decision, I enjoy getting to help make these decisions and using the information I\u2019ve learned from readings, discussions, etc, to make what we believe is the best decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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