Shovel Bums
Who among us didn't go through a phase when we wanted to grow up and spend our lives, like the song says, "Digging up history and living in tents?"

Of course, we probably thought that would include digging up dinosaurs (paleontology), or discovering ancient interplanetary visitors (spielbergology), or anyway, finding some buried treasure, diabolical mummies, or, (come on!) maybe at the very least, dangerous secret societies.
Those who did grow up to become archaeologists found that it was a pretty different story. The dangerous secret societies even turn out to be bikers.
Shovel Bums is well acquainted with these harsh realities, but can help us see a glimpse of their lighter side, too. There's plenty of apparel suitable to those tents from the song, and some pretty amusing cranial fragments for the rest of us.

Traditional Native Garb

Things here are arranged both by design and by category and it might be a little too difficult to know which is which; but you can't expect to find buried treasure without a little digging. Oops. No buried treasure. I'm doing it myself.
"Archaeologists Don't Dig Dinosaurs" is a graphic design commissioned by Shovel Bums, from Holquist Design. It's a pretty striking image, and it sits well on the shirts - and what shirts? Pretty much anything from tank tops to pink, green, yellow or natural hued t shirts, along with a sensible ash grey. You'll see about the same selection for each of the other designs.
Some other highlights are "I'm a Cultural Material Girl", a whole series of anti-Intelligent Design gear, "Be Patient - I'm Still Evolving" and the one we led off this article with - "The Top Ten Things Archaeologists Do Not (or rarely) Find".

Neanderthals for the Reclamation of Europe

This may be my favorite. I think it's because I spent some confused moments once with a stone tool that had been carved by a Neanderthal - I just couldn't get it out of my Homo Sapiens mind that here was an object that had been made by a human being who was not of my species. It just turned my head around.
And though I usually like the tshirts best, I'm quite taken by the big mug with this design on it. Possibly because those guys did have pretty big mugs.
Anyhow, hats off to our shorter and hairier cousins. We miss you, wherever you are.

Bumper Stickers and more neat stuff

There's a whole pile of bumper stickers here for the anthropologically inclined, as well as greeting cards, postcards, tote bags and messenger bags. You'll also find shirts and creepers for those very young shovel bums.
I haven't even mentioned the GIS humor, which I think may be an acquired taste, or several flavors of both evolution and devolution - sort of a "half empty/half full" proposition.
If you have a bent for archaeology or anthropology you're likely to have a few chuckles at this site. Like any of the occupational sites it's going to have less appeal to you if you don't work in the field (get it?) but if you ever even thought about digging up history and living in tents, you ought to give this one a try.

What's not to like?

Don't expect glamorous graphic design - as I mentioned above, one of the more striking visuals here was commissioned from a professional artist, and the rest of the work, though there's nothing wrong with it. isn't finished to the same level. That's not unusual in a site that's as specialized as this one - and it shouldn't be a deterrent to its main audience.
Otherwise, I was only dismayed not to find the "What Would Homo Erectus Do?" design that is mentioned, but apparently never comes up. So I'm still wondering.