“She doesn’t even go here.”

42. Dig Me Up – Suzanne Chance

Burial sites aren’t always controversial to dig up, like when someone finally admits that missing person didn’t “leave them for some other guy” and points the site out after 30 years to the police. But, when they’re burial sites that are being considered as archaeological finds, there is a lot of controversy and even if one is planning to be reverent with any found remains and not just Poltergeist over them to build a subdivision, it’s still controversial. If in Poltergeist they put all the remains on display in a museum instead of pretending to move the cemetery, it would have been weird, to put a suburban point on it.

Callie, a high schooler who audits a field school-level collegiate dig into a Caddo mound somehow, ends up finding the less-controversial kind of burial site masquerading as a Caddo burial. Her pit is on the weird, rocky side of the mound, so of course that’s what she found. No sherds for her. She has been getting more than her fair share of the death threats about the dig, while most of the work to prevent the dig went through protests and normal legal channels. Who dresses up and tries to stab the high schooler when they could just petition the court? The answer is a very sweaty and dramatic man, but, that’s usually who it is.

Horace is unimpressed with this anthropology department’s recruitment methods.

 

Speaking of burial grounds, Horace is waving from one right now! He’s right there!