November 2, 2001 - Archaeological War Dance
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"Archaeological War Dance"
by Ellie Braun-Haley
Not all archaeology is as exciting as Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it
does have its moments. In one of his books my husband Shawn spoke of surveying in Peru and being attacked by wild dogs. And on one of our trips to the north country we crossed the path of a brown bear and almost became history when we became mired in the muskeg. When we were hired to survey some property in the badlands I thought it would be a safe place, no worries, no attacks. I was wrong.
I was shovel testing and very focussed on the task or I might have noticed that I was about to be attacked. Sometimes when we are
examining the big things in life we can be missing the little things.
I was so intent upon looking carefully through the soil as I did a
shovel test, that I did not realize that the location I was digging
at was very near the home of hundreds of underground bugs. Not until I felt something nipping at me did I look down and see that my clothing was covered in ants. They were in my sleeves, on my stomach, even under my socks. I was so startled I screamed and began jumping up and down. That caught Shawn's attention and as it turns out a few others too.
Shawn was only a few meters away. He looked so concerned and for moments I was too busy yelling and brushing at an army of ants to tell him I was really quite all right.
Considering the large number of ants on my clothing I realized that I had given them a great opportunity to do their own exploring and by now they they were definitely under my clothing as well as on top. I wanted to strip off my clothes and give them a shake but this particular survey site was located next to a new housing development and there had been workers up on the roof tops. Of course my startled shouting had captured attention and now every worker seemed to pause in time to watch my war dance. How does one search, dislodge and evict a colony of ants with composure and modesty?
I shuddered, and frantically brushed off the insects, pulling at my
own clothing in an effort to discover all the places that they had
decided to investigate. I brushed myself off over the outside of my clothing, and turned my back on the workers to hunt for the little
critters under my clothes. Of course by now I was also trying to
regain my composure. Considering my startled hip hopping and screaming, I am sure it was a little late to appear poised.
I laughed at myself as I realized that I had probably provided a
great interruption in a rather hum drum day and called out to Shawn that I was fine I just should not sit on ant mounds to do
archaeology!! LOL
Well we may not have found anything outstanding to record for
archaeology that day but if ants write at all, I think they will be
writing up their own exploration reports as they sure covered a lot
of foreign territory, (for ants!)
Ellie Braun-Haley copyright 2001
shaley@telusplanet.net
Ellie enjoys writing, reading and spending time with her family. She
and her husband publish uplifting stories on two web sites (and send out two newsletters of stories submitted by an excellent list of great writers). Visit our sister sites: Angels On Earth at
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