{"id":752,"date":"2016-06-29T22:39:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.westernargolid.org\/pro\/?p=752"},"modified":"2016-06-29T22:39:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:39:42","slug":"a-career-in-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernargolid.org\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"A Career in Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have about one more week of field work on the Western Argolid Regional Project. The project has been at full strength for the last three and a half weeks and the field teams have been remarkably efficient, averaging about .3 sq km per day.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m tired. My body aches, and fieldwork has increasingly become an exercise in pacing, energy management, and hydration as teams wrap up surveying difficult units or work on special documentation projects across our survey area.<\/p>\n

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It dawned on me that this could be my final field season on a major project in my career. I\u2019m in my mid-40s and by the time this project is published and my other projects are done, I\u2019ll be pushing 50.<\/p>\n

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Whatever type of fieldwork I do as a 50 year old won\u2019t be the same – or probably even similar to what I\u2019m doing now. Last week, I went on one more hike just to check if a web of goat tracks could have been a route between two areas of our survey zone.<\/p>\n

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It was obviously a way, but clearly not a route (much less a path or road). These long walks were my archaeological calling card for years, particularly in the Eastern Corinthia, but after this week\u2019s hike, I\u2019m pretty sure my boots will be reserved for the more mundane and low impact tasks like keeping my socks clean.<\/p>\n

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The biggest thing I\u2019ll miss (other than, you know, finding stuff and the bizarre conversations one has while stomping through dense maquis in the Greek countryside) are the unexpected vistas that appear as one rounds craggy hills or looks back on ones path.<\/p>\n

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They seem to scale endlessly across ever shifting foregrounds and backgrounds. Hills become ridges, ridges become plateaus, plateaus become fields. The landscape goes from olive trees and plough marks to fields and the countryside. Paths so obvious from maps or photographs disappear into vegetation.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sad that I\u2019ll likely never again hike around with the same sense purpose as I did last week and on-and-off over the previous 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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