'The rock art gave me goosebumps': discovering the Amazon's lost archaeology

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5. My interest was cultural anthropology

and linguistics, too. By the time I got to full time (instead of piecemeal) courses, I was also well past my 20's, so I opted for a language major and anthropology minor, with a focus on Native American cultures. It was the specialty of the professor that I took most of my anthro courses from.

My interest started in childhood, with exposure to other cultures and their languages very early. Then my father, who grew up on a farm, showed me arrowheads and spearheads that he had found when plowing and saved. That same year in grade school, the My Weekly Reader publication for kids did an article on the excavation of King Tut's tomb. I was hooked. Archaeology and anthropology seemed to have everything to hold my interest - mystery, lost treasure, different ideas and ways of living and thinking.