> Describing the role of site director, Wheeler cautions aspiring
> archaeologists to be ever-wary of lazy laborers who will go to sleep
> behind the spoil tips after each and every barrow full, unless watched
> like a hawk. He then tells his disciples that they should stand ever
> ready, with their very sharp knives sheathed at their sides, to leap into
> a pit, draw their knives swiftly, and to masterfully (and with minimal
> strokes) cut an impeccably clean section along the baulk (which, last I
> heard, is the term we yankees use also, Adrian). My impression is that, to
> Wheeler, leadership meant keeping the "wogs" in awe and fear.
>
had read/heard something about recommending that all trenches radiate from a
central point, where you could watch and make sure the hired help wasn't
stealing the silverware (alternately: so you could aim down all the trenches
with your own personal choice of firearms...)

geoff carver
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