You also have to able to deal with the government, local people, workers who don't speak English and your own staff. You have to have strong observational skills, strong leadership skills and you have to be a capable and untiring scholar. I only can hope that you might find a career that you are half as crazy about. We are carefully cataloguing all of the pottery we unearth. Thousands of pieces are cleaned and catalogued.
Designs are copied, pots are reconstructed, everything is recorded photographed and drawn.
We hope that this will create a resource for us and other scholars so that when any kind of pot is discovered from this period, one might compare it against this catalogue and thereby make a determination about a pot's use and date. We are certain about some things. Other things we are still learning. I know you know that I am not the kind of doctor that works in a hospital. I went to school five years after college to get my doctoral degree in ancient studies, languages and archaeology.