the.barwickian
SOC-8
As I sat down this evening to continue work on my big Traveller project, The Archaeologists' Guide to the Galaxy (so titled primarily to justify the subtitle, Always Know Where Your Trowel Is), word came of the sudden death of Professor Mick Aston.
Aston was not the reason I became involved in archaeology as a hobby. That's down to growing up near York at the time of the Coppergate dig. But he's the reason I later specialised in landscape archaeology.
Most Brits will know him as the eccentric, wild-haired archaeologist from Time Team. So I put a little piece together that largely ignores his TV work and concentrates on his archaeological work and his particular influence on me.
The Archaeologists' Guide (which will reference the OTU though it should be useful for any setting with past civilisations and be relatively system-free, though GT and T5 offer the easiest skillsets to work with) is nowhere near ready for publication. All I'll say at this stage is that IISS surveys must try to determine at least typical levels of carbon, argon and potassium, the field uses of a bioscanner, and that I need a goram densitometer.
I know now who it will be dedicated to.
Aston was not the reason I became involved in archaeology as a hobby. That's down to growing up near York at the time of the Coppergate dig. But he's the reason I later specialised in landscape archaeology.
Most Brits will know him as the eccentric, wild-haired archaeologist from Time Team. So I put a little piece together that largely ignores his TV work and concentrates on his archaeological work and his particular influence on me.
The Archaeologists' Guide (which will reference the OTU though it should be useful for any setting with past civilisations and be relatively system-free, though GT and T5 offer the easiest skillsets to work with) is nowhere near ready for publication. All I'll say at this stage is that IISS surveys must try to determine at least typical levels of carbon, argon and potassium, the field uses of a bioscanner, and that I need a goram densitometer.
I know now who it will be dedicated to.
