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...then of course, no one intelligent would feel comfortable in a pit full of poisonous snakes. And Curt Sandburg is more of a bona fide archeaologist than Harrison Ford ever could...
...fourth-year graduate student, Sandburg has always loved excavation. He says museums and archaeological artifacts have fascinated him ever since he was a little boy. By the time he was a teenager, his parents wanted to see just how deep-felt this interest was. "My parents were saying 'Enough of this archaeology stuff. Send him out and see if he likes getting his hands dirty...
...tried to take part in a University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) dig, but insurance regulations prohibited anyone under 15 from participating. "I cried and screamed as my mother dragged me away," Sandburg recalls. So the next year he was back, eager to get his hands dirty...
...necessary for archaeology to do a good job of reconstructing culture," Sandburg says. And for Sandburg archaeology is far more than big holes and little artifacts. "Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows," Sandburg says, quoting Mortimer Weiler, one of his favorite writers. "The best archaelogists make things stand up, make them come to life," he explains. "You have to use as many sources as you can and you try to come up with a three-dimensional version of what really went on. It's like making a pop-up picture...
...example, in a big project Sandburg's working on in northern Italy, he is gathering information from the archaeological record, Latin sources, ethnohistory from Roman times and information from local residents...