The most exciting part of archaeology is
is I guess you know rewriting our
understanding of who we are. With
my team I've been excavating this cave
site on Sulawesi looking for evidence of
the of the widest symbolic culture of
some of the world's earliest known cave
artists and what we have found is a
surprisingly diverse collection of
personal ornaments, jewelry objects if
you, like made by these people that date
back to at least 30,000 years ago so
this is really intriguing because for
the first time I guess where we're
really enriching our understanding of
the full symbolic culture of these
ancient humans. These weren't people in some book these were our ancestors in a
lot of cases. What keeps you going is the
thought that any new day you know there
could be just some amazing discovery so
if you've never even expected just
around the corner and it happens it
really happens.
