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Student tackles archaelogy site Michael Gibson really dug France. Using a trowell and a brush, the 19 year old Port Perry youth liter- ay did "dig" a segment of France, a little smaller than a baseball The field, from August 11 to Septem- ber 9. Michael was a member of an ar- chaeological team excavating a site near the city of Clermont. Led by Professor John Collis, from Cowboy 4X4, V6, ps, pb, AM/FM stereo, jump seats, box liner, custom cap. 1984 CHEVY PICKUP 6 cylinder, ps, pb, 2 tone - red & white, HD susp., P235 tires. 1984 CHEVY S-10 EXTENDED CAB CUSTOM DELUXE Says: 1984 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER History is in the digging the University of Sheffield, Eng- land, the team was working on site believed to date back to the early Roman Late Tron Age, ap- proximately 50 A.D. Professor Collis has been con- Archaeology student Michael Gibson spent a month in France working on a site dating back to 50 A.D. Below, his tools and pieces of amphora he discov- ered. Talk about an interesting summer! . sun roof, auto, ps, pb, 5 passenger, immaculate. 1986 JEEP COMANCHE 4X4 5 speed, ps, pb, only 40,000 miles. Like New. 1983 FORD F100 300, 6 cyl, automatic, ps, pb, HD susp., P235 tires. 1985 CHEVY BLAZER V6, auto 0.D., ps, pb, AM/FM cassette, tilt, cruise. The saga continues ... COWBOY CARS TO DISCOVER Water Street & Hwy. 7A at Knopp's Corners centrating his efforts at this partic- ular site for an amazing 15 years, and will be back at it next sum- mer as well. Michael became the third Cana- dian ever to work on the site, after hearing about it from a tutorial leader at Trent University, where he is just starting his second year majoring in archacology. At first, he applied to work on a project in Italy, but was told it wasn't being done this summer. His name was then passed on to Professor Collis. Michael found out he was going to France less than a month before he left. "I didn't have much time!" he joked. He also had to pay the whole cost of the trip. University stu- dents aren't paid for their work at archaclogical sites. It's all volun- teer, but as Michael points out, the work looks good on a resume. "In archaeology, you pretty well have to have four years experience before you start getting paid," he said. Despite the pay prospects, Mi- chael is excited about his career choice, and his experiences in France this summer.' Over the years, the team has dis- covered a skeleton, virtually com- plete, and eight cremations, as well as hundreds of picces of pot- tery. Michael discovered a few inter- esting pieces himself, including a fragment of a human skull, and a large clay vessel called an ampho- ra. Naturally, he was most excited about the skull. "That kind of freaked me out a bit," he admitted. Although his favourite part of the trip was spent on site, he only spent seven days there. The rest of his time was put in tagging and cleaning objects found during the excavation--a major time- consuming task. Best of all, though, he met oth- er archacology students from all over the world, and thus made many new friends. There's a good chance he'll be going back to the same site next summer, and he can hardly wait.