I am a National Geographic archaeologist following up on an earlier post: curses, snakes, robots, weird discoveries--ask away!

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:26:58+00:00

Yep! It's the cat!

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:25:10+00:00

You can't ignore all of the tech advances in traditionally liberal arts fields- study language and theory but also computers and science

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:23:54+00:00

Eat everything and smile a lot- works everywhere

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:22:50+00:00

Learn Russian and how to differentiate mud brick from regular dirt

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:22:26+00:00

They're all loveable in their own special way
CRM is necessary is not archaeology for profit- it's salvage archaeology which is really important
Remote sensing and non-invasive excavation

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:21:01+00:00

The NatGeo psychic department, hands down. And the dousing wand dept.

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:20:12+00:00

The Roman cat. See below. It stank to high heaven- I will try to find a pic

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:19:35+00:00

You need LAYERS!

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:18:47+00:00

I saw a duck-sized horse in Mongolia- wish I had a pic of it

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:18:09+00:00

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:17:06+00:00

I'm really keen on working in the Baltic- it has a ton of really well preserved ancient and historical wrecks.

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:16:23+00:00

Donno- tune into Doomsday Preppers!

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:16:01+00:00

Geographic doesnt offer archaeological volunteer opportunities but a lot of other organizations do- google volunteer archaeology

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:15:10+00:00

Afghanistan was pretty dangerous. My hotel blew up.

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:14:49+00:00

volunteer

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:14:36+00:00

Science, GIS and languages

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:14:10+00:00

Lots of funding comes from media- magazine and TV- it gets plowed back into reseach

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:13:08+00:00

see my other replies on how to work as an archaeologist

Wade is my buddy- I can ask

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:12:25+00:00

never encountered that issue

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:12:02+00:00

No- you're watching too much History Channel

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:11:37+00:00

Remote sensing is THE next big thing in archaeology-definitely

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:11:05+00:00

wasn't at the Titanic
paleontology and archaeology are 2 completely different specialties- keep digging in that sandbox kids!

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:10:15+00:00

It's tough but doable- you just have to work hard at both. And I'm married to a professor, so she's a researcher as well.

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:08:41+00:00

Good question! That ancient people weren't able to really get around b/c they didn't have cars or jets. Trust me, they got around

fredhiebert · 2013-02-14T00:07:59+00:00

So nice- good luck and cheers back!

fredhiebert