Live dispatches from the Tooth Fairy
#update! day of archaeology site is having some problems, so the links have been temporarily removed... originally posted by Brennawalks on JUNE 29, 2012 as part of the This is reposted from here at Day of Archaeology 2012 - bigger and badder than last year! #dayofarch So, now you know. The Tooth Fairy is an archaeologist. Archaeologists get everywhere. Like sand. This also applies to jobs, so it’s not totally impossible that someone who specialises in the minute structures of teeth (see my previous post from DayofArch 2011 ) would end up in the overwhelmingly awesome Human Origins Research Group at the Natural History Museum, London . For starters, this is an awesome place to work. Yesterday I found out that during WWII, the collections were evacuated to stately homes across the country to escape the Blitz… complete with associated researchers. And there’s a basement here that’s really a bomb shelter which was used by Churchill as a telephone exchange – p