A Job You Can Dig




KERA's Think show

Summary: <p><em><em><em><em>[2014-12-01 12:00:00] </em></em></em></em>Indiana Jones made archaeology look action-packed. But the reality is, it’s painstaking, often monotonous work. This hour, we’ll talk about the real-life world of archaeology – and the charge its practitioners get out of tiny discoveries – with Marilyn Johnson. She writes about the topic in <a href="http://www.kera.org/2014/12/01/a-job-you-can-dig/Lives%20in%20Ruins" target="_blank"><em>Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble</em></a> (Harper).</p>