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was a classics student at the University of Kansas, he moved to the island of Crete to work for a summer. In search of real-world experiences, he saw his future-a job in academia with bouts of travel to dig sites every year-unfolding before him. “It was clear archeology was not for me,” he recalls, “starting with digging

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