Archaeological garbage dump digs

Archaeology are garbage dump digs

I feel bad for archaeologists in the future.  When they write books about our culture and how we lived, no one is going to be interested in them because everyone is already going to have access to everything they would of ever wanted to know about our culture. 

The problem is that people in the future will have too much information about our culture.  Digital media and time capsules will make it so people in the future will know every single detail about our lives, from our self indulgent twitter posts to unpaid credit card bills. 

Right now archaeology is a romantic profession with characters like Indian Jones, Robert Langdon, and National Treasure’s Bill Gates.

People are not going to think archaeology is a romantic profession 1000 years from now.  In 1000 years, all of the cool dig sites like old villages and castle ruins will be tapped and fully recorded.  In the future, the only archaeological digs left will be the garbage dumps from the 20^th century, where there will be an abundance of SpaghettiO cans and empty bottles of Windex. 

In the future it will be just torture listening to any archaeological narratives, “the discovery of wonders… we are now 100 feet below the surface of the garbage….down here the pressure isn’t strong enough to crush a person, but with the sights and the smells of old decomposed TV dinners, baby diapers, and moist plastic bags, you wish the pressure could.