

Field school : context is everything The survivalist's guide to archaeology : our ancestors were geniuses Extreme beverages : taking beer seriously Pig dragons : how to pick up an archaeologist My life is in ruins : jobs and other problems Road trip through time : our partner, heartbreak Underwater mysteries : slow archaeology, deep archaeology - The classics. Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and indexĭown and dirty : studying people who study people - Boot camp.

What drives these archaeologists is not the money (meager) or the jobs (scarce) or the working conditions (dangerous), but their passion for the stories that would otherwise be buried and lost" Her subjects share stories we rarely read in history books, about slaves and Ice Age hunters, ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution, children of the first century, Chinese woman warriors, sunken fleets, mummies.

Johnson digs and drinks alongside archaeologists, chases them through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu Picchu, and excavates their lives. Examines "the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past.
