Archaeologists expose everything in 2012

Now available on eBay: The naked archaeologists calendar you may or may not have been waiting for.

Via Kristina Killgrove

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waetherman

I wish my girlfriend was that dirty.
bcsizemo

HHHNNNNNGGGGG!!!!!
sockdoll

There’s something about a naked lady scientist reclining in a hole in the ground…
Shinkuhadoken

This isn’t really the sort of thing I’d expect archaeologists to unearth.
http://boingboing.net/ The Life Of Bryan

I’ve seen an archaeologist naked within the past five minutes, yet I was still shocked to find out that this exists.
- http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
  
  I don’t know if that’s your normal user id, but the first thing that second picture brings to mind is “those are my elderberries!”
  - http://boingboing.net/ The Life Of Bryan
    
    If anything about me can be described as ‘normal’ then yes, it is.
    
    You must have a better monitor than I do, though; I can’t really make out anybody’s elderberries in that picture.
    - Donald Petersen
      
      I believe he meant juniper bushes. The elderberries were what your father smelt like.
      - http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul
        
        Right you are!
willyboy

Not something I really want to go digging through. Snap!
Donald Petersen

Does that sign say “Dump” or “Rump”?

Well, either way.
Allison McGurk

Yeah, yeah, but where’s Phil Harding?
- http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch
  
  I REALLY don’t want to see him naked. His manky hat is yucky enough!
fencepost

Reminds me of a dorm neighbor (studying archaeology) in college. His short-term goals after graduation were to 1) go on a dig 2) become a “bronzed long-haired god of the desert” 3) return to grad school as a “bronzed long-haired god of the desert” so “life will be fun again”
Brainspore

“You call this Archaeology?” – Dr. Henry Jones, Sr.
cdh1971

Gee wiz…the Mayans really were right.
edgore

Thank you. Until now, I did not know I was waiting for this.
Halloween_Jack

I thought that this was going to turn out to be something along the lines of archaeologists taking another look at that Mayan calendar and finding out that it actually ended in 1964 and that, instead of the Singularity, we got Beatlemania.
Øyvind

At the end of the day, yes, it turned out I DID need one of those calendars. Who knew? Thanks, BB, for filling an unknown void in my life! (I see archaelogists on a regular basis, and now I can never look at them the same way again…)
penguinchris

I’m a geologist, and an amateur photographer. Considering that a significant portion (2/3 or more) of students in geology departments (undergrad at least; closer to 50/50 for grad school) are women, I’m hoping we’ll see a naked geologists calendar soon as well but if not, perhaps I should take this up as a personal project once I start on my PhD.
http://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com darrrrrrn

I’ve been making these Topless Mayan Calendars for 2012: http://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/toplessmayancalendar/
Daen de Leon

“History … laid bare” …