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Ian Dyck worked as archaeologist, curator and program manager at the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History (now Royal Saskatchewan Museum) and later at the National Museum of Man (subsequently Canadian Museum of Civilization, now Canadian Museum of History) until his retirement in 2010.
"Born in 1865 in New England, Nickerson came of age when there were 29 people in North America earning their living as archeologists. (...) His body of research became posthumously influential in the development of institutional archaeology on this continent. He produced beautiful topological drawings and refined meticulous, grid-based excavation methods that are now the standard for modern archeology. (T)he drive to do science-to really do science, to let your curiosity subsume every other motivation and concern, to ignore all the signs practically screaming at you to do something else with your life-is something strange and rare. (This book) celebrate(s) that spirit, as well the glorious minutiae in which it finds sustenance. -- Patchen Barss ""Going It Alone. The marvellous, single-minded, doggedly strange passion of citizen science,"" Literary Review of Canada, p. 21 ""Born in 1865 in New England, Nickerson came of age when there were 29 people in North America earning their living as archeologists. Nickerson spent his life trying-and failing-to become the 30th. He never managed to secure a permanent position at a museum or university. And yet, his body of research-eked out during whatever time he could steal away from paying jobs in the railroad industry-became posthumously influential in the development of institutional archaeology on this continent. ""Archaeology had become his obsession,"" Dyck writes. ""He accepted unstable jobs in remote places that sometimes separated him from his family and sometimes left them short of funds. (T)he drive to do science-to really do science, to let your curiosity subsume every other motivation and concern, to ignore all the signs practically screaming at you to do something else with your life-is something strange and rare. (This book) celebrate(s) that spirit, as well the glorious minutiae in which it finds sustenance."" - Patchen Barss, ""Going It Alone. The marvellous, single-minded, doggedly strange passion of citizen science,"" Literary Review of Canada, January-February 2017, p. 21"
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