Earlier to-day, I met with my tutor to talk about dissertation ideas, and I have a plan!

The plan at the moment is to take these babies home during the summer (including Volume I which someone mysteriously has managed to make their own until May, even though I’ve only got these ’til March at the moment) and go through them from an archaeological perspective, picking out general trends of merchant behaviour, which I’ll then attempt to apply to some earlier (Roman period or so) case studies from roughly the same area.

It’s not exactly what I was thinking about, but it’s the closest I can get to my interests with the resources I have, it sounds extremely interesting and exciting, and it rocks like crazy to have a plan of action and an achievable goal.And after all, it’s my undergraduate dissertation, not the be-all end-all of my future academic life.

And now: concerning this blog!
I have decided that sine I am not solely interested in Archaeology, this will no longer be solely an Archaeology blog, but rather a Science Blog about all sort of cool sciency things. Maybe I can even find some bad science to refute, which is one of my favourite things in the world.

To start this off, and to counterweigh all the past that’s been happening, have some future. Past future that is.
The Usborne Book of the Future.
Tales of Future Past.

The Usborne book is more generally plausible and slightly less fantasy than the Future Past articles, which makes sense considering what decade they’re from. The Future Past articles are really just a series of strange and wonderful aliens which get more and more silly as we get farther away from Earth.

It’s tempting to say you’re disappointed that the future isn’t as exciting as we thought it’d be back in the 70s, but I’m not, really. I think the present is pretty amazing. We don’t have robot butlers or hover-cars (yet) or nuclear-powered synthetic hearts (…probably not happening any time soon), but we have the Internet, and mobile phones, and we’re working on nuclear fission and genetic engineering and cyborg body-bits and skin data transfer all sort of really really exciting things.

I don’t think the presents that mundane. And I’m still looking forward to the future. I think it’s going to rock.

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