Yesterday, we posted a 2000 interview with archaeologist Marilyn Kerns.  Today, let's catch up with Marilyn.  What has she been up to for the past eight years?  

GV: Do you still play games on Gamesville?  What are some of your current favorites?
MK: Oh yes,  I like Bingo – I don’t have a particular favorite, I mostly bounce between them.

Are you still an archaeologist? Any exciting expeditions you’ve been on since we last spoke?
Yeah.  The last big one I did was the Schoonmaker Property built in 1708 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.  We found an intact kitchen with old English plates and buttons, some from the Civil War.  Really cool stuff.  

Any cool travelling you’ve done for work or for fun?
My husband and I took a trip out West for three weeks visiting friends and relatives.  We missed a major snowstorm here!  We traveled by “Hey, that road looks good - let’s take it!” We met a lot of interesting people that way.  One person we met was a Hopi silversmith.  We spoke with him for two hours. He was one of the Navajo code talkers during World War .  He told us he was going to retire, but 4 young men came up to him and said that they wanted to learn silversmithing.

Being an archaeologist, are you looking forward to the next Indiana Jones movie?
Oh, yeah.  I like the Indiana Jones movies, but being an archaeologist is nothing like that. We don’t rip out objects out and run away.  Everything has to be carefully measured, photographed, and drawn.  I don’t get shot with a lot of arrows!

 
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In honor of this week's release of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," which features the return of film's most famous archaeologist, we are posting our 2000 interview with Marilyn Kerns (a.k.a "archaic1"), Gamesville's resident Indy.  What is her most prized discovery? Find out below...

Tomorrow: Eight years later, is Marilyn still digging up buried treasures? Has she visited the Temple of Doom? 

GV: What is it like being an archaeologist?
MK: It's like being on a never-ending treasure hunt.

Where has your work taken you?
I've been all over the United States, as well as parts of the South Pacific. I've explored religious sites, burial grounds, all kinds of places.

Where did your interest in archaeology come from?
I read a children's book on archaeology when I was five, and I was hooked.

Which of your discoveries is your favorite?
This is always a tough question. If I had to choose ... my personal favorite is a line of six, lead WWI toy soldiers discovered right where a child left them, in 1925.

Which famous archaeological discovery do you wish was yours?
Cleopatra's palace in Alexandria's Eastern Harbor.

So you like underwater archaeology?
I think it's fascinating.

What's your best physical feature?
The pinkie finger of my right hand. I call it my Lucky Finger because it's the only one I haven't smashed on a dig.

Who's your hero?
Jacques Cousteau. He overcame adversity and proved you don't need a college degree to explore and teach.

When you're not exploring, what do you watch on TV?
Star Trek. It often demonstrates how superior cultures are not always better than primitive ones.

What's your favorite Gamesville game?
Acey Deucey, but I'm not very good at it. I'm waiting for your poker game to start.

What are three things you would never do?
Lie to my mother; steal from an archaeological site; step on the gas when I meant to step on the brake.

If someone's interested in becoming an archaeologist, what should they do?
Read, and go on digs with a local archaeology chapter.

 

 
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