Field archaeology is a lot like breaking rocks already; I'm glad I'm not the kind of archaeologist who digs in the earth! I'm the kind who goes around picking up things already on the surface and tries to make sense of them. There were times, though, at Docimium when a bulldozer came in very handy for moving tons of quarry debris. Seriously, I couldn't afford to rent the Komatsu at $200 an hour when I couldn't even rent a car and had to thumb rides with the trucks.
So I just hung around when the dozer was working to get the first look at
the Roman quarry blocks, like the ones just to the right of the dozer, when
they were fresh.