So when I saw a YouTube video of a guy using magnets to retrieve submerged objects from bodies of water, I was intrigued. Sometimes you get lucky, but sometimes you can spend hours prepping and days scavenging only to return home with nothing.īen Demchak casting his clamp magnet into the Monongahela river in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I’ve excavated burial mounds and precontact villages and metal-detected battlefields. I love recovering objects, whether it’s digging deep into the earth or sweeping the surface using a metal detector. I’ve been a registered professional archaeologist, with an undergraduate degree in anthropology from California University of Pennsylvania and a graduate degree in North American history from Norwich University in Vermont, for over 17 years, and I’m as addicted now as I was then to what it’s all about-artifact hunting. All I had to do was learn a craft.Īnd so, I did. At that moment I knew what I was going to do for a living, and I didn’t need a magic sword or a way to travel the galaxy to do it. In the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, is recruited to recover the long-lost Ark, along the way digging up relics and piecing together the mysteries surrounding them. I never expected one of them to change my life. It was always a treat when my mother rented movies.
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