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im going to Uzbekistan. to work on excavations on a site from the middle paleolithic... wow...
paleolithic professor invited me to join her team. so i had to accept
#archaeology is like indentured servitude in many ways. you have to perform slave labour for established researchers and in exchange you#might get some perks. like co authorship of an article or chance to travel to a far away country#i'm so excited#i fell in love with central asia long time ago and then sort of fallen out of this love#i can't even imagine this. she said that the temperature there is around 50 degrees... there is no water. we'll be living in the mountains#and will have to bring all our water from a stream that is 1.5 h away from the site#i'm not a stranger to camping and living in a tent but it was always in like controlled environment with camping facilities nearby#like running water#and i have never been camping for this long#also i hate planes and its been literally close to decade since i had to take a plane#and i have never been outside of europe#eh i have never even been outside of CENTRAL europe#moje
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