Funny Archaeology Hats

Archaeologists have the best pun shelf in any trade, and these hats put it on the brim. The badges name the job plainly: ARCHAEOLOGIST, and SHOVEL BUM, the field crew's own nickname, which stings from outsiders and is worn defiantly proud when archaeologists use it about themselves. ARCHAEOLOGIST NO, NOT DINOSAURS answers a question DigVentures lists among the most irritating a field archaeologist hears, since archaeology is the study of the human past. MY CAREER IS IN RUINS is an old gag, cited in print since at least 1963. TROWEL AND ERROR and I'M INTO CARBON DATING keep the puns coming, and THE OLDER IT IS THE MORE I LIKE IT is the oldest one on the shelf. IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM is the Indiana Jones line, though archaeologist Aren Maeir points out that excavation and documentation come first, which is where I'M NOT SHOVELING I'M EXCAVATING fits in. Shovel Bum Comix, a book of cartoons about contract field work, records the flea-bitten motels and long stretches of boredom behind the jokes. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. TROWEL AND ERROR and MY CAREER IS IN RUINS each come in two colorways.