Your Piece of Humanity

Hello fellow Archaeology kids.

If you haven't checked out this video - do so! It's a quirky, witty, and insightful song about Anthropology.

I really like this song, I mean - it's really catchy first of all. I find myself singing it all the time, on buses, on the way to class, at the grocery store, when doing homework...anyways! Also, I think it nicely boils down what we do in our Archaeology class or just in Anthropology in general. It's about learning from one another, and exploring our beautiful and unique similarities and differences.

One of my key attractions to Anthropology is this celebration of diversity among people, and this field is really proud to stand for that. I also like this song because, similarly in Anthropology, we love the variation of people, but there's also this incredible appreciation that we all are just human. It's really exciting to think about that although we are all so different in such wonderful ways, we together, are all the same - human.

Using Archaeology for me is just a fascinating way that we can learn more about ourselves through the study of people remains. Especially through looking at burials and grave sites, there is so much we can discover  - it's really exciting!!

So tell people your story. What is your piece of humanity?