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Subaquatic archeology, one of my dreamed jobs

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As a late 3rd post, I want to share with you one of the archeology areas that I were knowing lately, the underwater archeology. As 2nd year anthropology students we gotta to choose the next semester, in July approx, our elective courses to specialize ourselves in the following years of the degree, as social or physical anthropologists or as archeologists. There´s the option of doing a 'secundary specialization', but that implies one year and a half to graduate approx. Well, I want to be an archeologist, as the title sugests haha, and the area related to the sea, or the water bodies like rivers, subterranean waters, lakes, cenotes and more... just motivates me to be a scuba-archeologist. I love and respect a lot the water, as a natural phenomena wich can take human lives without mercy and as a world where the most remote things, especially human made, and unknown animal species are hidden and can be discovered by us.   In simply words, the wide archeology works with human materi...

If I had the Delorean Time Machine, I would do it, just for fun

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I was thinking this situation, travelling in time, like in that movie with the Doc, Marty Mcfly and their famous car, the Delorean. And the first memory that became to my head, if like my brain just went like 'hey, take this old memory I just bring back to you, from your childhood', was related to a particular set of toys that I got in 2009, the "Gogos". This toys series got a last name, originally they're known as "Gogos Crazy Bones" and, the game related to this mini-figures is the 'knucklebones' or 'jackstones', a game from the Former Greek (1200 BC- 146 BC). The dynamic of this dexterity game was throwing ankle bones (or astragalus) or just tiny things as dice, so you can reach a point series to win. For example, if I throw the 'gogo' and it lands showing its front, I win 2 points. When I was a kid I never played with my 'Gogos' like this jaja, but I remember that I loved to collect them all, and for this case, I wo...