Triggered: Tanya Borodina

WildYouth, ©Tanya Borodina

Image and Text by Tanya Borodina

I took this shot in one of many archaeological camps, scattered around Russia every summer.
This camp is placed in Divnogorye where former Paleolithic people (14-13 thousand years ago) used to live.

Guys on the photo just took a break from the preparations for a so-called initiation to an archaeologist.
Usually, senior archaeologists are preparing a soil ditch along which the neophytes will crawl.
This stage of initiation echoes the ancient hunting rite, where to crawl along the moat and get out of it means to be swallowed and born again, in a new quality.

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