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These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov.
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You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.
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Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.
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Don't picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.
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You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones.
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The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
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Seeing sites and features in places where we never looked or never thought things might exist is causing archaeologists across the world to think deeper about their sites or entire cultures.
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I spent eighteen days entirely in widening and deepening my cave,
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My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
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Once archaeologists have shown possible 'new' ancient features, they can import the data into their iPads and take it to the field to do survey or excavation work. Technology doesn't mean we aren't digging in the dirt anymore - it's just that we know better where to dig.
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my digs look as if they've been dug
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connoisseurs of geologic form,
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Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.
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Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!
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Well, what are we waiting for? Someone call the backhoe and let's go dig up a dead guy.
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Hand me a shovel, he thought. I'm getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben
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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
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workin' in a coalmine
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You know what turns dirt into diamonds?"
"Pressure. Weight. Heat ... "
"The geological equivalent of torture.
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Working in garden is like digging knowledge from the earth.
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If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.
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The most exciting part of what I do is understanding the scale of what we don't know. There are just countless archaeological sites all over the world, and one of the most important and best ways of finding them is using digital technology.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
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I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
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And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?
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Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
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American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
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I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.
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Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.
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We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
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We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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Like Momma says, only thing you get by digging dirt is dirty.
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I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots.
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When you're in a hole, quit digging!
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Houses were knocked down ... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood ... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.
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For me, the feeling of my hands in the dirt offers a deep, primordial
connection with the earth. When I am working the earth, I am at peace. It feels so right and so good.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern.
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The secret of landscapes isn't creation ... It's maintenance.
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Geology ... offers always some material for observation ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.
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A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long ... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them ...
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My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing ...
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The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.
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I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry ... that kind of thing.
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Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.
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Only a thin steel ring that cut the rocks in half. The rocks went on into the depth, unchanged. They began
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
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To the landscape architect a rock garden ... appears ... the work of a lunatic.
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Build castles, don't dig graves.
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I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.
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They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
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The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.
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I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.
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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
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Archaeology digs the Bible's grave.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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Adventure is the vice of all Woodcutters.
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When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.
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I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.
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What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?
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On rock, in gravel, and alluvial mud, under the bright sky of
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Shall I check into convenient spots to bury a body?'
'You never know when a nice soft piece of ground may be useful.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Pickaxes?" Alex screwed up his brow. "What do you plan to do with those in Bristol, Pooele? Beat upon little old ladies?
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When you are in a hole, stop digging!
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When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
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Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.
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And you and I had better go work on the land. I want to scrape the earth with my hands.
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What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human.
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If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.
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Focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away.
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something got dug up, and whoever's responsible put the shovel in our hands and walked away laughing.
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Good shoveling - and then I walk
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There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.
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We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.
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Donald Trump was building a pyramid in the Nevada desert to house his eventual remains. When done, it will be ten meters taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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They'd made the bricks from the local earth, processed through some of the mining equipment and fired in a kiln powered by combustion. It could only have been more primitive if they'd dug a cave and painted bison on the walls.
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Pray for rain while digging a well.
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I live in a house that's incredibly old, and it's typical that part of it is slightly in the ground. It's very earthed. It's almost like living in a hobbit house.
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We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.
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[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.
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But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
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Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
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I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
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The ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.
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steel tractor implements buried in more overgrown grass, the rotary blades shining bright from recent use by
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.
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From the moment that the first plow blade bit into the crust, the homesteaders began to destroy the foundations of their new life, and in a very few years the crust was gone
used up, scattered, blown away by the dry summer winds.
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I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
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You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.
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I build only living stones
men.
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In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.