Archaeologist Problems

i don't care about monday's goals, tuesday wednesday dig some holes, thursday clean my mandibles, it's friday i'm a bug

happy its friday im a bug friday!!

I fully thought this was about being an archaeologist, excavating and cleaning bones, until the very last word.

mandibles didn’t tip you off?

i don't care about monday's goals, tuesday wednesday dig some holes, thursday clean my mandibles, it's friday i'm a bug

happy its friday im a bug friday!!

I fully thought this was about being an archaeologist, excavating and cleaning bones, until the very last word.

mandibles didn’t tip you off?

i don't care about monday's goals, tuesday wednesday dig some holes, thursday clean my mandibles, it's friday i'm a bug

happy its friday im a bug friday!!

I fully thought this was about being an archaeologist, excavating and cleaning bones, until the very last word.

i don't care about monday's goals, tuesday wednesday dig some holes, thursday clean my mandibles, it's friday i'm a bug

happy its friday im a bug friday!!

I fully thought this was about being an archaeologist, excavating and cleaning bones, until the very last word.

Why were they burying barrels of cyanide? How and why would you even compile enough cyanide to fill multiple barrels???

I’m from Goldrush Country and I didn’t know this. All the gold-mining-related historical attractions around here are about good old-fashioned panning and pick-axes. Now I’m incredibly glad I’ve never had any urge to go explore the suspiciously colorful hills left in the wake of various mining operations.

Eek! Please don’t play in tailings piles and outflows folks, they are Bad News. “Oh but it’s lovely sand we want to take our ATVs out on it and let our kids build sandcastles” NO. DO NOT.

Reblogging because some desert-dwellers might not know this. Yes, those pretty hills are probably within ATV driving distance of Amargosa, Ocotillo, Buttercup, Superstition or whatever other recreational area you might be camped out at, but rainbow-colored dirt is usually rainbow-colored for toxic reasons!

Absolutely! And bear in mind too, not all tailings are brightly coloured - the ones in my area are just light grey. “Sand in spots where sand isn’t common” is sometimes the only warning sign.

I’m reviving this post because I’m doing up a Health & Safety protocol for digging near a mining site and folks. I did the math based on some recent soil tests. The tailings near my test site contain enough arsenic that ½ teaspoon of soil (tailings) easily contains a fatal dose of arsenic for an adult. Please stay safe and wash your hands thoroughly before eating/drinking/smoking if you aren’t 100% certain what the dirt is like where you’re digging.

And this is why we found a whole quart of mercury in my grandparent’s basement! Old timey prospectors would really just do shit.

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Why were they burying barrels of cyanide? How and why would you even compile enough cyanide to fill multiple barrels???

I’m from Goldrush Country and I didn’t know this. All the gold-mining-related historical attractions around here are about good old-fashioned panning and pick-axes. Now I’m incredibly glad I’ve never had any urge to go explore the suspiciously colorful hills left in the wake of various mining operations.

Eek! Please don’t play in tailings piles and outflows folks, they are Bad News. “Oh but it’s lovely sand we want to take our ATVs out on it and let our kids build sandcastles” NO. DO NOT.

Reblogging because some desert-dwellers might not know this. Yes, those pretty hills are probably within ATV driving distance of Amargosa, Ocotillo, Buttercup, Superstition or whatever other recreational area you might be camped out at, but rainbow-colored dirt is usually rainbow-colored for toxic reasons!

Absolutely! And bear in mind too, not all tailings are brightly coloured - the ones in my area are just light grey. “Sand in spots where sand isn’t common” is sometimes the only warning sign.

I’m reviving this post because I’m doing up a Health & Safety protocol for digging near a mining site and folks. I did the math based on some recent soil tests. The tailings near my test site contain enough arsenic that ½ teaspoon of soil (tailings) easily contains a fatal dose of arsenic for an adult. Please stay safe and wash your hands thoroughly before eating/drinking/smoking if you aren’t 100% certain what the dirt is like where you’re digging.

And this is why we found a whole quart of mercury in my grandparent’s basement! Old timey prospectors would really just do shit.

Least it's not a condom in one of the artifact bags.

On one memorable occasion, it was a condom wrapper in my test trench, so the rest of the day was spent waiting for the jump scare of finding the associated used condom.

I am deeply interested to know how long it takes to fade, because while the museum currently does not have a terrible backlog, in the past we've hard sample bags that have taken us years to process. And if these things do well under humid conditions and don't fade I will give the field guys a gross of them.

I'll update later this spring - I've just used it on tyvek labels and flagging tape in a "high stress" environment (seaside, sun exposure, Canadian climate) where Sharpie fades in a few months. Someone in the comments on this post says they behave slightly better than Sharpie for fading, too!

An excellent discovery and I'm definitely curious to hear how it holds up in fieldwork! The only thing I'm a little worried about is how the solvent they must be using will interact with the thin plastic of artifact bags, especially over time – maybe something to bring up with your local restoration/conservation specialists? A quick search hasn't given me any info of what the ink is made of, so some testing may be needed.

Does it seem like it smudges or gets on other surfaces? I'm looking at it for the dozens of bags of frozen food that get damp as soon as they're pulled out to label them. We currently use sharpie and it's impossible to dry the bags to a point that the marker will work. For me, they don't need to last long, but they do need to last rubbing against dozens if not hundreds of other bags in the freezers.

I think the removal of the white actually comes from the solvent in the markers during writing; if I write with a Sharpie and then quickly smear with my finger it's always left the same empty spot. So acetone and rubbing alcohol are just exposing the previous change.

I am deeply interested to know how long it takes to fade, because while the museum currently does not have a terrible backlog, in the past we've hard sample bags that have taken us years to process. And if these things do well under humid conditions and don't fade I will give the field guys a gross of them.

I'll update later this spring - I've just used it on tyvek labels and flagging tape in a "high stress" environment (seaside, sun exposure, Canadian climate) where Sharpie fades in a few months. Someone in the comments on this post says they behave slightly better than Sharpie for fading, too!

An excellent discovery and I'm definitely curious to hear how it holds up in fieldwork! The only thing I'm a little worried about is how the solvent they must be using will interact with the thin plastic of artifact bags, especially over time – maybe something to bring up with your local restoration/conservation specialists? A quick search hasn't given me any info of what the ink is made of, so some testing may be needed.

Does it seem like it smudges or gets on other surfaces? I'm looking at it for the dozens of bags of frozen food that get damp as soon as they're pulled out to label them. We currently use sharpie and it's impossible to dry the bags to a point that the marker will work. For me, they don't need to last long, but they do need to last rubbing against dozens if not hundreds of other bags in the freezers.

I am deeply interested to know how long it takes to fade, because while the museum currently does not have a terrible backlog, in the past we've hard sample bags that have taken us years to process. And if these things do well under humid conditions and don't fade I will give the field guys a gross of them.

I'll update later this spring - I've just used it on tyvek labels and flagging tape in a "high stress" environment (seaside, sun exposure, Canadian climate) where Sharpie fades in a few months. Someone in the comments on this post says they behave slightly better than Sharpie for fading, too!

An excellent discovery and I'm definitely curious to hear how it holds up in fieldwork! The only thing I'm a little worried about is how the solvent they must be using will interact with the thin plastic of artifact bags, especially over time – maybe something to bring up with your local restoration/conservation specialists? A quick search hasn't given me any info of what the ink is made of, so some testing may be needed.

I am deeply interested to know how long it takes to fade, because while the museum currently does not have a terrible backlog, in the past we've hard sample bags that have taken us years to process. And if these things do well under humid conditions and don't fade I will give the field guys a gross of them.

I'll update later this spring - I've just used it on tyvek labels and flagging tape in a "high stress" environment (seaside, sun exposure, Canadian climate) where Sharpie fades in a few months. Someone in the comments on this post says they behave slightly better than Sharpie for fading, too!

Instead of going to work tomorrow why don’t we all just dig a really deep hole

Unfortunately for me ….