Graves are good

If I could choose what was buried with me, I don't know if I would be serious or not. As an archaeologist, I'm always dissecting the possible of grave goods within sites. This gets pretty boring after a while. I think that it would be interesting to see exactly which grave goods you could get away with before those excavating it became suspicious. With that in mind, the first thing I would want to have buried with me would be a toilet. I would be placed upon this sacred urn in a repose of intense thought. Next, a full place setting would be placed at my feet, and on the plate would be half eaten copy of The Life of Pi. At my side would be my trusty gilded carafe filled with raisin bran. Finally, on my head would be a traffic cone. It would be pretty enjoyable to read the site reports from archaeologists excavating my grave. Archaeology is by no means easy. When interpreting evidence from site reports, there is no way we can directly interpret the thoughts of the people we are studying. However, grave goods are an excellent way of deciphering what people think of their dead. Since I doubt very much that people thousands of years ago have anywhere near the amount of goods to associate their lives with, grave goods are typically representative of the socioeconomic status of an individual. Unfortunately, we are usually never faced with a case that is so simple and direct.