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remnants of that life.
He hated the day of the Great Electronics Search. It made him the most
unpopular
man in camp for the first week of the dig. But he had done it often enough to
know that by the end of the summer, his students would thank him. They would
say
things like "I really got to enjoy the woods, Doc. I'd never done that
before."
And never would again, he would wager.
Most of those students would be angry if they knew that Bradshaw always
brought
his own electronic equipment to the dig site. They would be even more upset
if
they knew that he spent part of his evenings on-line, keeping track of
current
research. His favorite on-line site was a place he lurked, a place where some
of
the best archaeological minds of this generation argued theory in terms that
were as far beyond these students as computers were beyond the tribes that
once
lived in this very spot. Bradshaw's only contribution to the siteтАФfor that
matter, to most archaeological publications, print or on-lineтАФwas to list the
location of his dig and the reason he was excavating the site.
Imagine his surprise when he was awakened this morning by the vibration of
his
watch against his wrist. He had only set that private computer alarm for
messages marked urgent, be they phone, fax, or e-mail.
This one was an e-mail message, sent only a few hours after he had updated
the
dig information for the archaeologi-cal site. It was from Dr. Leo Cross.
Cross
was not the world's most famous archaeologist. Bradshaw had no respect for
the
famous people, the brand names, to whom recognition was more important than
research. They usually let their grad stu-dents handle the hard work, and
then
took credit for the find-ings. No. Cross was the best-known archaeological
historian among his peers. They all envied his intuitive ability. It was
almost
as if the earth spoke to him, revealing to him secrets that none of the
others
could ever hope to hear.
The thing that made Cross so very very good was that he did the things that
other archaeologists hoped to do, and probably would never achieve. Cross
used
the myths of his-tory to find actual archaeological sites. And Cross hadn't
just
done that once or twice. He'd succeeded dozens of times, which to Bradshaw
meant