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Chatty Host Who Makes Archaeology Glamorous
New York Times from New York City, New York County, and New York State ^ | February 6, 2006 | Felicia R. Lee

Posted on 02/07/2006 10:28:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv
mmmm Josh is adorable...and he's got a twin brother?

I enjoy the show though it's been a bit dumbed down to fit a one hour format and appeal to school-age kids.

Hope he goes to China and Mongolia.

21 posted on 02/07/2006 3:24:14 PM PST by MissCalico
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To: SunkenCiv
I watch this show with my husband and we both like.

Yes, the host is handsome, but that isn't the reason I watch the program. I'd watch it if the host looked like GODZILLA; I am just partial to this topic.

22 posted on 02/07/2006 4:19:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Betis70
LOL - I kind of figured that! Have worked a couple of contracts myself, more as the lab technician who got to help the field crew every now and again, but not much. Also happen to live in probably the worst archaeological spot in the US (at least as far as potential sites) - the Texas Gulf Coast. When the Karankawa were your basic hunter/gatherer nomads and the other tribes only seasoned in the area for brief periods, theres little to get excited about until you start hitting historical archaeology.

Know anything about working in a museum??? LOL LOL LOL

23 posted on 02/07/2006 5:32:34 PM PST by Alkhin (Double polaroids?! What were you thinking of at the time?!)
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To: Betis70
And this is TOTALLY way off topic, but I just read your profile.

GREETINGS FROM ANOTHER MEN AT WORK FAN!! LOL

Sorry...couldnt resist!

24 posted on 02/07/2006 5:35:14 PM PST by Alkhin (Double polaroids?! What were you thinking of at the time?!)
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To: Alkhin; Betis70

I worked the other end of the biz as a travel writer flown around first class, entertained by govt tourist offices in various countries. Everything topnotch on those press trips including great hotels and restaurants and PhD guides on daytrips to sometimes exotic spots. We were expected to write highly complimentary travel articles for various magazines to pay back our hosts. I got bored with using the word "delightful" and quit after three years. Now I wish I'd stayed with it.


25 posted on 02/07/2006 5:49:01 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!
OH man! Howd you land that?!

*jots down Travel Writer as Something To Be When I Grow Up*

26 posted on 02/07/2006 5:51:04 PM PST by Alkhin (Double polaroids?! What were you thinking of at the time?!)
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To: Alkhin

Not man, Man. Grrrrrrl here.

Those are very difficult assignments to get, even more difficult now then back in the pre-internet day when I traveled. I'd been in publishing since I was 23, recognized a name on the masthead of the airline magazine on a flight I took to SanFran as an early friend in the biz. He'd become production manager of a company that created and published inflight magazines for TEN airlines. He introduced me to their travel editor and voila! I wrote a lot of nontravel stuff for them as well and got paid for those articles.

I think that each airline produces its own magazine today, and they're not as good as they once were. Still, there's some opportunity. Query them with ideas for nontravel pieces or destination pieces about interesting spots near your hometown -- provided that the airline services the area. Work up to the plum assignments.

Come to think of it, assignments have always come rather easily because I was inhouse editor at various magazines and book publishing companies. So you might take that route. When I was editorial director at a non-NY house, I found it extremely difficult to hire editorial assistants who could actually do anything. Bad spelling, grammar, even guys with masters in journalism. Why? Because their allegedly good universities graded on political correctness, not writing ability. So I do recommend that you become expert at grammar, usage, spelling, editing -- even proofreading. Really, you have no idea how rare those skills are and how valuable to publishing houses.


27 posted on 02/07/2006 6:29:44 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: SunkenCiv
He's sorta cross between Geraldo Rivera and the Animal Planet's croc hunter. I like his show and so do my kids. If he gets more people interested in history and archaeology more power to him.
28 posted on 02/07/2006 7:40:54 PM PST by lizma
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To: Veto!; Alkhin

>>as a travel writer flown around first class, entertained by govt tourist offices in various countries.

I think you are my new anthropology hero. Wow that would be fun! Though there is something to be said for being all grimy and dirty living out of a tent. Maybe it was my inner Boy Scout coming back--or possibly the 'liquid bread' we packed into camp. ;-)

Alkhin--I used to work in New England as contract archie. Think gravel pit with some soil around it. I think I still have knee problems as a result, but did get to work on some pretty cool sites, including an early 17th century native fort.


29 posted on 02/08/2006 8:08:19 AM PST by Betis70 (Brass Bonanza Forever)
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To: Veto!
ERK! Sorry!

*jotting down notes for future reference* - Thank you! - right now my career is specified as homeschooler, but I do look forward to the day when my daughter is out on her own. Then she can be the one worrying about what her Mama is doing....

30 posted on 02/08/2006 10:34:17 AM PST by Alkhin (Double polaroids?! What were you thinking of at the time?!)
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To: Betis70
LOL - "gravel pit with some soil around it" - shall we compare flesh wounds?? LOL - try getting our famous black soil gumbo off the skin/skeletal material/artifacts - or digging in it when there hasnt been rain for several weeks. Like digging for bricks.

would love to excavate something older than 150 years old, and more substantial than broken dart points and ochre.

31 posted on 02/08/2006 10:37:05 AM PST by Alkhin (Double polaroids?! What were you thinking of at the time?!)
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To: SunkenCiv

This is a good show.


32 posted on 02/08/2006 10:48:28 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Alkhin

I've done the concrete desert digging in New Mexico, and I can't tell which is worse, the gravel pit or the caliche. Both are probably better than one job where I worked outside in 5 degree weather, on the shore, with a wind chill around -20.

Yikes black soil gumbo sounds pretty nasty. I did work on an 18th-19th century cemetery that had some pretty nasty (and greasy) soil. That was ... err ... not fun. It also had a 'vampire' associated with it, which made it a lot more interesting.

http://users.net1plus.com/vyrdolak/NEfolkbelief.htm


33 posted on 02/08/2006 11:23:31 AM PST by Betis70 (Brass Bonanza Forever)
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