Is your trash valuable? I'm talking about the receipts, candy bar wrappers, and the old homework assignments that you tossed in the trash specifically because you thought they were garbage.

If any of that stuff seemed precious or important, you wouldn't have thrown it away right?

Okay now let's fast forward 10,000 years and suddenly your discarded

McDonald's Happy Meal and Gatorade Bottle become priceless artifacts that offer a window into what life was like for earlier humans.

It only takes a few thousand years to turn trash into treasure know-it-all's.

That's the beauty of archaeology. So grab your

travel and field notebook because today I'm taking you on a dig.

Hi, my name is Bella, and you might know me as Jay is from Tiktok or YouTube.

But you're about to know me from this podcast.

Know It All.

Know It All.

And each episode I'm going to help you become a know it all about something new.

Here we go. So why am I outside my apartment taking a shovel to the parking lot?

So why am I outside my apartment taking a shovel to the parking lot?

Well, let's just say I may have gotten carried away after watching the new Netflix movie, The Dig.

Why would anyone want to bury a ship?

I would expect this is a grave of a warrior or a king.

The dig is about the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon burial ship thought to contain a medieval king at Sutton-Hoo, which is considered

one of the most famous archaeological sites in British history.

Why else would the lot of you be playing around in the dirt while the rest of the country prepares

for war?

My favorite definition of archaeology comes courtesy of kids connect.

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