Once again restating my UTTER JEALOUSY over English archaeology. A whole damn country where you can just dig up Roman tesserae in your backyard and find Paleolithic burial sites on the beach.

And, oooohhh, don't even get me started on India!

#HistoryGeek

When I was a little girl, kids' library cards were marked w/stickers limiting to check outs from the Children's Room. I used my mom's card to check out archaeology books from the main room so often that one day the frustrated librarian asked for MY card and peeled my sticker off.

It is still very much on my bucket list to volunteer on an archaeological dig.

I do have a soft spot for paleontology - as my collection of fossils will attest.

But, overwhelmingly, archaeology is what pushes my happy #HistoryGeek buttons. Historic linguistics ties into this fascination, too.

I will always regret having to sell my coin collection a few years ago. Not because I had anything of significant value. I didn't. But, because that array of coins was world history I could hold in my hands. I did so much exploring and learning and went down so many delightful>

rabbit holes learning about each coin. My being caught up in the world history represented in coins started as a preteen and went well into adulthood.

I learned more about history and geography on my own from those coins than I ever did in school.

Which brings me back to the beginning of this thread. ARGH! In England, you may well turn up an over 2000yr old coin while tilling the ground before planting your vegetable garden!

I am so jealous of Eastern Hemisphere old stuff.

And, again, don't even get me started on India.

Or, China.

Or, anywhere in the Middle East.

Lawdamighty....

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