Hi Evangelia...
Thanks for the positive comments about the blog/CV.
Yeah I worked with Ashley last year at the NMAI in Washington, DC... if you look in my blog for the group picture of people working on 'always becoming' you should see her there.
http://dancull.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/img_3070.jpg My first dig was a part of what they called "work experience" at school... I worked with the Bristol Archaeology Unit attached to Bristol Museum, in the South West of England. I worked on two digs, and washing bones in the Museum. The first dig was out of town on a new housing development, and the other was inside a office block that had been internally demolished leaving just the shell of the building that we were working in... it was a strange experience. I had so much fun, that I decided I wanted to do archaeology... although I did also make my first contact with conservation, when we found a roman sword and the unit called a conservator to block lift it. Which was cool, but to be honest I was much more interested in archaeology, and was of the mind that conservators just slowed the whole process down.... If I remember rightly, I was more impressed that the conservator drove a VW Beetle. [I love VW's]
So, I guess my opinions on the merits of conservation have changed over time.
