221. On the Job with Rachel Dewan, Archaeologist

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Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

"It’s really a lesson in humans and human activity."

Welcome to the On the Job series on the Ali on the Run Show! Every Tuesday for the next seven weeks, we'll meet cool women with interesting, fascinating, unique, badass jobs. They'll talk about how they got into their respective fields, what their jobs entail, why their work matters, and why they've pursued their passions. Plus, they're all runners, so they'll talk about how running fits into their busy lives. First up: Rachel Dewan. Rachel is an archaeologist who spends her summers in Greece, digging for artifacts and studying ancient cultures from 4,000 years ago. (The Minoan culture, specifically.) It's her job to dig up material culture and try to make sense of it all. On this episode, she talks about what, exactly, it means to be an archaeologist (she's not Ross from Friends!), what it's like on a dig, and what being on a dig actually means.

Inspired? Me, too! This November, Rachel will be leading a trip combining both her passions: running and archaeology. This 8-day running tour of Greece (led by Rachel and a fellow archaeologist and art historian) will end with the Athens Marathon. Between runs, you'll explore historic places and great food. Check it out here!

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0:00.0	The On The Job series on the Alley On The Run Show is brought to you by TrackSmith.
0:05.0	Go to TrackSmith.com slash on the run and use code OnTheRun15 for 15% off your first tracksmith purchase.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Alley On The Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and I am thrilled to kick off a new
0:24.8	seven week series on the show The On The Job series. For the next seven weeks I'll introduce you
0:31.5	to seven remarkable women who have cool, unique, exciting jobs. We'll learn about how they got into
0:38.1	their fields, what their days are really like, and what makes their jobs exciting, challenging,
0:44.2	and at times scary and stressful. My goal with this series is to learn more about how women make work
0:50.7	and running work in tandem, especially when the work part of that equation includes say 100
0:57.6	hour work weeks or being in an operating room for an entire day. We'll hear from women who have
1:04.3	the jobs we see on TV, like the real-life calli Torres from Grey's Anatomy. We'll hear from the
1:10.3	women who make what we see on TV, like one of the women behind the Netflix sensation cheer,
1:16.4	and so much more. First up, we're heading to Greece for the big dig with Rachel Dewan.
1:23.2	Rachel is an archaeologist whose job takes her to Greece every summer to dig up old artifacts so
1:28.9	she can help piece together history. How cool is that? So cool! And when she has to be on site at 5am,
1:36.6	and when it's nearly 100 degrees out by the time she's done on the dig, when in the world does she
1:42.8	run? Let's find out and let's kick off the on the job series with archaeologist Rachel Dewan.
1:54.6	Rachel, thank you so much for being here. We are about to learn so much. I literally have no idea
2:01.4	what your job entails other than what I'm picturing in my head. So you're going to like school us on
2:06.9	everything you do. Thank you so much for being here today. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm
2:12.1	so excited and ready to talk all things archaeology. Yay! Okay, so the first thing that we're going to
2:17.7	do is just tell everyone who you are, where you're from, and yeah, what it is that you do.
2:24.4	Yeah, my name is Rachel. I am currently a PhD candidate, which means I basically just have to
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