# I'm going to play Eddieana Jones in a week!

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**Created:** [May 10, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-play-eddieana-jones-in-a-week/108353 "2002-05-10T19:47:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-play-eddieana-jones-in-a-week/108353/1 "2002-05-10T19:47:56Z")

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In a week I’m going on my first archaeological dig. Even though I’ve always wanted to do it I just never did. I finally got off my butt and found a place that needs people for a week. I decided that I can do 4 days so I don’t lose too much vacation time.

So what should I expect? I’ve taken a number of classes but none have ever gone into what actaully happens at a dig. They sent out a little booklet, but that’s mainly what they expect to find and what the site looks like.

What type of stuff should I take? They did give us a list and I got my own trowel now. I can’t believe how excited I was just buying a $7 trowel, I was like a little kid. I looked for the rest of the stuff on the list, but is there anything else that might be needed that they didn’t list?

For those intersted I’ll be at the[Winslow site in Montgomery Co, MD](http://www.smcm.edu/Academics/soan/asm/2002-fs.htm). Maybe someone else is planning on going as well? I’ll be there from the 17th til the 20th.

Any info would be great since I know so little about this part of Archaeology. You’d think that someone so intersted in it would have done something after 20 years, but no not me. At least I finally got the nerve to do it. So stories, advice etc is all welcome.

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**Author:** ![Clever\_Hans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Clever\_Hans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clever_Hans)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-play-eddieana-jones-in-a-week/108353/2 "2002-05-10T21:08:26Z")

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And here I was thinking this thread was going to be about an off broadway transexual reproduction of “The Last Crusade”.  
That sounds like one banger vacation, the closes I will ever get is most likely a park sandbox but who knows mayhaps a dog burried a bone sometime in the past… well good luck all of us still working will just hope for a nice mummies curse to come out of this ;). Enjoy.