Friends and colleagues: The life of an archaeologist can be rather routine, 
especially for your typical field technician, aka "shovel bum."  For that 
downtrodden class, we now have a new hero, T-Bone, whom we introduce in The 
Shovel Bum's Lot, the latest video feature on our nonprofit streaming-media 
Web site, The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org).

If you ever wanted to know what an archaeologist's life really is like, you 
can get the inside scoop in a special adaptation of the Shovel Bum zine.  In 
1997, Trent and Betsy de Boer tired of endlessly explaining what they did as 
cultural resource management (CRM) field archaeologists.  They decided to 
produce a comic strip portraying the "shovel bum lifestyle."  Now follow 
T-Bone and friends in living color (and Trent's real voice) as they trudge 
through the wilds of Arkansas in this charming video by the University of 
New Mexico's Troy Lovata.

This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment.  We 
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Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
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