BAR asked Andrea Berlin what she loves about being an archaeologist:
AB: The best thing about this is that when I am on a site working on material, I am just like a time traveler. I am right back in whatever moment of history it is that I’m reconstructing in front of me. Not physically reconstructing—I don’t mean putting the pottery together with glue; I mean mentally reconstructing—visualizing the actual parameters of people’s daily lives in a way that no text and no history book can possibly capture. Because real people just getting through their day-to-day lives and picking up this fashion, or setting the table in this way, or deciding to cook something or another for dinner—nobody writes about that. But it’s how we live today, and I feel like I’m part of this long chain of humanity, and I’m enabling myself and others to see these people when they were invisible. And that feels great.
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BAR asked Andrea Berlin what she loves about being an archaeologist:
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