Have you ever wondered how the Celts must have lived 3000-2000 years ago? Have you ever sat in a forest, feeling the carpet of moss beneath your fingers, and wondered if they had ever walked the same path at night and danced around a campfire with their tribesmen, the fire lighting up their joyful faces? How strange it is to realize that the starry nightsky we gaze up at is the same all ancient civilizations have spent their lives wistfully watching. They too lived, laughed and loved like us, suffered heartbreak, spent weeks or years wandering the vast stretch of the Earth trying to find somewhere to belong.
This sort of idea, this humanizing (right word ????) of past cultures, is what drew me to anthropology. Archaeology specifically. These past peoples were both like and unlike us. Really what i think is most beneficial about studying the past is that it puts the present in clearer perspective. Yes, people were trying to survive and thrive in the past, but they were also experiencing various life events along the way. Thats what connects all of us, across borders, boundaries, and timelines.