An Archaeologist

04/23/24 • 30 min

Unearthing ancient wine cellars, finding the right places to dig, and tracing the arc of lost civilizations with Eric Cline, an archaeologist. What's the difference between a shard and a sherd? And what will archaeologists of the future make of us?

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Transcript

Dan Heath: It was mid-morning, and it was already really hot. Eric Cline was chipping away with a little handpick at an archeological site in Northern Israel. He was a college student on his first overseas dig. The heat was getting to him. Suddenly his pick struck something green and kind of small that flew up into the air.
Eric Cline: And everything went into slow motion. And so, as this green thing is twirling in the air, because I had hit it, and it flipped up, I thought, "Oh, a petrifie