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How to Dress For the Field
From your Archaeology Guide
Packing appropriately for archaeological field work is vital to your continued success in the field--not to mention your health!
Difficulty Level:
Easy
Time Required:
30 minutes
Here's How:
- First and foremost: good boots. Hiking boots for survey, flat-soled boots or sneakers for excavation, rubber boots for mud. Break them in first!
- A hat with a brim. Hat style depends on where in the world the excavation is.
- Several T-shirts with non-obscene slogans are fine; plain are better.
- Flannel shirts with long sleeves
- Two or three pairs of sturdy denims, with back pockets
- Sun block--at least SPF 30, and lots of it.
- Calamine lotion or similar stuff for dealing with the inevitable poison ivy (check local vegetation)
- Work gloves, several pair, sturdy.
Tips:
- You will be sunburned, count on it, so bring antidotes
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