So I got a phone call this morning from our Project Foreman in Northern Africa saying that the National Geographi guys that were at our site last month taking pictures want to use a few with me in them…
I don’t have any quotes just photo’s. I’m am rather accustomed to seeing some of the more high-profile digs being photographed, either by our photographer’s or on occasion the National Geographic guys and gals.
The dig I just returned from in NortherN Africa - Libya was a basic survey/excavate before the oil workers start cutting up the landscape. Petro-Canada one of the larger if not the largest oil company operating the region will be in the Article. Check out more on Petro-Canada in
this MENA Report.
For those who get National Geographic, I’ll be the guy with a brush and spade and white sand all over my face, uncovering a mercury cask… There was no murcury in it to speak of but trace elements.
So this should be pretty cool, I’m excited. I hope I get a raise…
Let us know when it’s published! For what I know of National Geo, sometimes they have very long lead-times between when a story is researched, photographed and written … and then published.
Congratulations! 
Ditto what Ellen said. Will you please update this when you know the month?
And congrats!
Date of the issue will coincide with Robert Ballard’s article on his expedition in the Black Sea. I met Ballard a while back when we was working at Woods Hole. He is of course the man who found the Titanic in 1985. I came inches away from becoming a Marine Archaeologist, but there were several factors that influenced that decision.
Anyway, Ballard now resides down Connecticut and is president of the Institute for Exploration - which I am very fond of. If anyone is ever around the New Enlgand area, a stop in Mystic Connecticut is highly recommended to see the aquarium and Institute.
If you navigate that site a bit, you’ll see a photo of some of the casks Ballard found, they are strikingly similar to the ones I was finding on land in Libya. His last Black Sea trip was in 2000 and his more recent discoveries will coincide with what I was finding in the desert. Fun Stuff let me tell you. I will of course post the link to the NG site when the issue goes to print.
I’ve seen five of the photo’s that will be captionated, one is of the site itself, and two have my mug in them, of those one is a close-up of my face covered in white sand. I look pretty ratty because I have a beard and longish hair. I usually grow a bear when on assignment, as it gives me physical proof of how long I’m gone…But I always shave it when I return, as my soon-to-be wife hates beards…
“I usually grow a bear when on assignment, as it gives me physical proof of how long I’m gone…”
Interesting approach.
Ahem!!
I usually grow a BEARD when on assignment, it gives me physical proof of how long I’m gone…
Cool. Very cool.
That’s so awesome! I have a subscription to National Geographic, so I’ll have to look for you when your issue comes out! Keep us informed!
Did you get the centerfold, or are you relegated to the Archaeologists of North Africa layout?
Congrats!
fantastic!!!
Wow, that’s fantastic! Anxious to see it.
How will we distinguish you from the fifty other people in every issue who look like this?
As an archaeologist by training who does technical support, I doff my pith helmet and salute you with my trowel. That’s like, the coolest thing I can think of, EVAR.
WTG!
But no plate in your lip? I’d have demanded one of those. You only get so many chances to be in NatGeo.
Congrats. I’ll watch for an issue and pick it up.
Cervaise - Anonymity on the boards is one thing, your face in National Geopraphic is another. It’s a bit harder to hide that. You all are a fair lot, so I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
cheers,
Hayden
Damn. If humans were judged on their spelling ability, I’d have been cast into the pit of Hades…
GeoGraphic
Heh heh. For a second there, I thought you were saying you’d be appearing not in Natty Geo but in something called “National Geopriapic,” and you’d be havin’ to do some 'splaining.
How totally and completely cool!
Do you get to have your picture taken with some topless African Tribal Wimmen with long necks?
Heh! Cervaise! I’d certainly have some explaining to do then…
No Shirley, those NG guys and gals travel in herds…You can see their truck coming for a long way away. As everyone in the group was primping and making themselves look like they were not really digging in the dirt - especially one of the grad students - I was just minding my own business doing the one thing I know how to do. Dig. I think thats why I got my photo taken because I looked - well real! I think one of the photo’s they are using has some members of my team behind me. You’ll see how good they look compared to my dirt-laden jeans…
Also, IIRC the long necks were many hundreds of miles south of us.