written and compiled by Judith Winters and Jonathan Bateman
Here are some archaeological anagrams to constructively fill your task avoidance periods. Does the truth lie in letters? Answers at the bottom of the page and no cheating!
henge monopoly (archaeology's latest buzz word)
uncleanly nodes in gigantic appendix (a fine piece of legislation?)
a batty, impotent microprocessor (measures the energy in light)
I am a reverberating, egotistical Tory (Politician and job description)
Ape shit! Ultra assurance if so (an honoured ancestor)
ancient brag base (landscape picture)
cruel, sadist values (a savage mind?)
crew for Lenin (noble archaeologist)
I am a large, erect xylophone! (explanation or just a fun day out?)
OK! Yo! Gender can (editorial twosome)
retain the Romeo? (feminist in anthropology)
he, android! (a post-processual icon)
idle as a loonie's pasty (sourcing technique)
brief words: nil (will he smoke dog's tails?!)
consult alcoholism ruler (mix and match handbook)
arched ribaldry (where are his social foundations?)
...and for the sake of post-modern self-referentiality...
seems a blag!
amalgamated bossier elite!
Answers| henge monopoly | phenomenology |
| uncleanly nodes in gigantic appendix | Planning and Policy Guidance: Sixteen |
| a batty, impotent microprocessor | Atomic Absorption Spectrometry |
| I am a reverberating, egotistical Tory | Virginia Bottomley, Heritage Secretary |
| Ape shit! Ultra assurance if so | Australopithecus afarensis |
| ancient brag base | Cerne Abbas giant |
| cruel, sadist values | Claude Levi-Strauss |
| crew for Lenin | Colin Renfrew |
| I am a large, erect xylophone! | experimental archaeology |
| OK! Yo! Gender can | Gero and Conkey |
| retain the Romeo? | Henrietta Moore |
| he, android! | Ian Hodder |
| idle as a loonie's pasty | Lead Isotope Analysis |
| brief words: nil | Lewis R Binford |
| consult alcoholism ruler | Munsell soil colour chart |
| arched ribaldry | Richard Bradley |
| seems a blag! | assemblage |
| amalgamated bossier elite! | assemblage editorial team |
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