{"id":2984,"date":"2023-08-01T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2023-08-01T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:19:41","slug":"theres-some-lovely-filth-down-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/2023\/08\/01\/theres-some-lovely-filth-down-here\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s Some Lovely Filth Down Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I don\u2019t feel like a lot has changed from the previous weeks in terms of the literal work, but I\u2019m definitely getting into the groove of things. In the first week I always checked my watch, and these days I feel like the time flies by. Learning there are only about 8 more work days left made me sad. It\u2019s going to be hard to walk away. Didn\u2019t know I\u2019d be so into dirt, but here we are. I also didn\u2019t anticipate how much endurance I\u2019d build for working in this kind of heat and humidity. In the earliest days (granted, without the shades over the site) I couldn\u2019t do much without constant water breaks. Now I get so into it I have to actively remind myself to hydrate. My excitement towards finding little pottery bits has actually increased now that I understand more about how artifacts accumulate. My feelings toward schist oscillates. It\u2019s very pretty and cool, but it needs to stop chipping into my eyes when I hit it. Getting down this far in our unit is definitely satisfying, same with seeing the progress everyone else has made. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s been really interesting to get a better picture of Antiochia through how it changed over time. Repurposed rooms, walled up doorways, older walls attached to newer ones, etc. Especially getting a larger picture of our structure(s) as a whole. Before coming here, I could picture a lot of the physical labor, but it\u2019s been new to learn about the surveying, technology, and all the different experts that collaborate to produce an excavation. I don\u2019t have a big background in education on classics, so I sometimes feel like I\u2019m playing catch-up on understanding all the context. At the same time, it feels extra fun to learn history from scratch while doing history from scratch. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t feel like a lot has changed from the previous weeks in terms of the literal work, but I\u2019m definitely getting into the groove of things. In the first week I always checked my watch, and these days I feel like the time flies by. 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