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Volunteer on a dig for the thrill of digging up the past (you'll also learn to hate buckets)

  • Written by: Gil Davis, Associate Professor and Director, Ancient Israel Program, Australian Catholic University
Volunteer on a dig for the thrill of digging up the past (you'll also learn to hate buckets)Photograph: Gil Davis, Author provided

This article is part of a series explaining how readers can learn the skills to take part in activities that academics love doing as part of their work.


A few more brushstrokes and the student gasped with excitement. There in the dirt was a small, bronze statue of a calf, revealed for the first time in 3,000...

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