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My experience in the field

I remember when I was in third year of Anthropology; we go to Los Vilos (fourth region) to excavate a specific research area, near to the beach. To reach the study area, we had to walk a long stretch, like 30 minutes, totally relied on natural light to work in the research area.

In the field was two kind of work, the first one consisted in excavate soil layers of 15 centimeters with a tool: spatula, and clean with a brush. The Second works consisted in strain the soil of the first work and then analyzes the residues of the soil and classify them according to research.

My favorite work was excavate, because I feel like an archaeologist, but the problem with this is the work position. That work is very hard, and suffers back pain.

The relationship with my classmates was very good, everyone try to help each other to clean the area and analyze the different sizes of bones (some of them were animals) and other was like a small shell (similar to those of sea snails).

The experience of work in the field, was essential to understand some of the study area across the time (many centuries), and generate motivation in career, assess the archaeological sites, and create awareness in society, generate respect for ancient civilizations to understand the past, present and future of the development of human civilization.