More on these little things.
Today was almost all lab work - making up microscope slides and looking at them. Phytoliths are pretty difficult when you first start out. Crazy shaped things in amongst misleading quartz from your sediments. I think they are interesting and useful, but not my most favourite things in the world. Starch on the other hand I've been looking at for a few months now and I don't have as much trouble with them, although I did at first too.
One of the things I have noticed though, it's really hard to go back to a student microscope when you've been using a top-end one. You get spoiled I guess. Bit like going back to dial-up after using broadband internet...
So many things to consider and incorporate into the interpretation of my thesis. What to do?
And I've come across a major problem. There are heaps of problems in the basic study of archaeology, from how information is read as 'evidence' for something, how arguments are often structured as to be as scientific as possible but falling into humanities processes, as well as the way that archaeology courses in Australian universities are structured and taught. I say: add compulsory scientific training in some subjects, rethink how we are approaching research questions and bring back the student excavations of the 1970s!
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