A Collection of Possible Alibis In Case The Police Show Up. I Like The One Where I Couldn't Have Been Anywhere Near the Scene: I Was the King of France at the Time.
I'm really glad the federal government requires these archaeological digs because you just can't put a price tag on a bunch of old trash that tells us absolutely nothing about the recent past that we didn't already know.
There's nothing quite like being the first person to hold something made by (hu)man 12,000 years ago. Especially when you think about winter with only stone tools to help you gather fuel of all kinds.
Know what? Just because we/you/I are older and probably had a fairly good education in history, don't assume that people younger than us have any clue about anything historical. It is amazing what people do not know.
As an aside. That clip just reinforces why I don't watch so called "news" programs anymore. The condescending tone of voice and stupid comments and stupid questions from that announcer just grates on the brain.
Also....the main and ONLY reason that they do these archeological digs is to preserve Native American artifacts. If they find that an Indian camped, threw out their garbage or pooped in the area you will have to totally reroute the entire project and spend millions upon millions of dollars to do it. Years ago, we knew a contractor who was building a very expensive custom home and during excavation came upon some artifacts and several skeletons. He quietly reburied the stuff away from the site and went on with the work. Shhhhhh......nothing to see here....move along.
The thoughts of what my life might have been like if I had taken those various other forks in the road and wonder if there might not be alternate realities where those different lives and different Me's exist. One where I didn't marry that person and married another. One where I had other children or none. One where I took a different career path. One where I didn't decide to move from one city to another and where life took a completely unexpected turn.
Perhaps we touch those other realities and our other selves in our dreams. Do they dream about ME?
My mind is really cluttered. I really must do something about those dust bunny thoughts.
Also....the main and ONLY reason that they do these archeological digs is to preserve Native American artifacts. If they find that an Indian camped, threw out their garbage or pooped in the area you will have to totally reroute the entire project and spend millions upon millions of dollars to do it. Years ago, we knew a contractor who was building a very expensive custom home and during excavation came upon some artifacts and several skeletons. He quietly reburied the stuff away from the site and went on with the work. Shhhhhh......nothing to see here....move along.
That's not really true.
In another life, while I was actively working in the field, I participated in contract excavations for new highways, schools, federally funded elderly housing, the closing of a major military base on the eastern seaboard (like...literally on the water), a new public high school, a multi state natural gas pipeline and a crap load of other things.
Never did any of those projects have to be re-routed.
For instance, where they put the high school--literally where the entrance hall is now--I found (I was the only one working that day. My crew was a bunch of sissies scared of a a light rain, but we were on a deadline) an Early Archaic site. Meaning about 12,000 years ago people essentially like me camped on that hillside overlooking the sweet little lake with a mountain looming over it and did the work necessary to survive a harsh northeastern winter.
That's pretty fucking cool.
And just at the bottom of the hill? A contact site. Meaning there were colonial artifacts mixed in with Late Woodland pottery and projectile points.
Don't get me wrong. I am all FOR archeology. That was actually my major in College (eons ago) Meso-American Anthropology and Archeology.
However, in California you cannot have a construction project without a "Native American" standing around getting paid to be a Native American observer, many of whom have practically no professional credentials. All of the construction guys I know consider them a giant PITA. There have been several bridge retrofit projects and roads that have had to be completely re-engineered and re-routed because an artifact has been found. Not that I want those things destroyed.
Since the big blow up about Kennewick Man and the obvious politically motivated agenda on the part of the current Native Americans, I have no sympathy for their cause. If they truly wanted to know the archeological history of the country and know their OWN history, they would not be frantically trying to cover up the discovery of important findings just because it doesn't jive with their own fantasies of their history.
In their minds anything and everything that is found is somehow their very own possession and subject to being destroyed, hidden or removed at their own will, instead of being legitimately studied.
According to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, if human remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affiliation to a Native American tribe can be established, the affiliated tribe may claim them. The Umatilla tribe requested custody of the remains, wanting to bury them according to tribal tradition. Their claim was contested by researchers hoping to study the remains.
The Umatilla argued that their oral history goes back 10,000 years and say that their people have been present on their historical territory since the dawn of time,[16] so a government statement that Kennewick Man is not Native American is detrimental to their religious beliefs.
Martin, I just read a piece in the Daily Mail today. An archaeological dig just determined that people 6000 years ago liked spicy food. They found hot mustard seeds stored in pottery.
Meaning about 12,000 years ago people essentially like me camped on that hillside overlooking the sweet little lake with a mountain looming over it and did the work necessary to survive a harsh northeastern winter.
@ Cody
I am currently reading Across Atlantic Ice (rather dry and anal in describing the artifacts) but quite interesting. Very interesting and does shine some interesting lights on Kennewick Man and other anomalies such as Spirit Cave and Lovelock Nevada findings, where **caucasoid types of remains that predate the current phenotype of native americans have been found. Remains that the current NAs want destroyed or hidden. Pre Clovis culture artifacts found on the Eastern coast and even some on the Atlantic shelf which was exposed during the last Glacial Maximum.
It is of course all theory, but we will never be able to study it if the NA's have their way and destroy any findings or artifacts.
**Caucasoid does NOT mean white people. It is a forensic anthropological description of the skeletal remains.
Mitchell, I heard one lady say they thought the Chinese came through the state by the railroad but the artifacts indicate the came earlier than that, the first gold rush. And I thought in that moment.
OMG, I didn't know that!
She continued, saying the opiates in the bottles suggest the men went downtown to the pubsxxxxx saloons to get alcohol and opium and the prostitutes stayed on the edges and had their own alcohol and opium in the otc medicine they were all taking, cough syrups and such. And I was all,
I think I have dreams that serve no other purpose than to show me what my other selves are doing in those alternative universes.
Last night I dreamed that my wife and I lived in a luxury high rise condo. She went out of town and I was drowsing on a daybed in the living room after talking to my wife on the phone. Another woman came in with luggage and started moving into the bedroom. When she saw me she started yelling and screaming.
I was glad when I woke up. I think that other me had a hell of a time after that.
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My Car Keys. I Knew I Had Left Them Somewhere.
Also: Spare Change, Found Between the Sofa Cushions of My Brain.
There was a Canadian Dime. And I Hadn't Even Been Thinking of Canada.
A Collection of Possible Alibis In Case The Police Show Up. I Like The One Where I Couldn't Have Been Anywhere Near the Scene: I Was the King of France at the Time.
I Also Keep a Pony in My Mind, For All the Young Women Who Always Wanted a Pony.
I found some neat stuff in my mind once.
If I ever find it again, I'll let you know.
"That'd be the butt, Bob."
Astonished to find I was goin' to Carolina. Interestingly, I had, just at that moment, aimed the car west for Omaha.
A perfect Act of Contrition..just in case. Catholics will get it.
Aw, I miss the Dali quote already.
Toy soldiers. I've unearthed a slew of them while digging in the garden. But my mind is blessedly empty.
A few found things come to mind: Titanic and other lost shipwrecks;
Pompeii, Herculaneum and other lost cities;
old ideas, considered lost, rediscovered;
new evidence for crimes, considered lost;
inventions which were never lost but were instead discovered.
You know what?
I'm really glad the federal government requires these archaeological digs because you just can't put a price tag on a bunch of old trash that tells us absolutely nothing about the recent past that we didn't already know.
Mitchell, Don't go hatin' on archaeology. I was in the archaeology club in college.
Geez Mitchell.
There's nothing quite like being the first person to hold something made by (hu)man 12,000 years ago. Especially when you think about winter with only stone tools to help you gather fuel of all kinds.
@ Mitchell the Bat
Know what? Just because we/you/I are older and probably had a fairly good education in history, don't assume that people younger than us have any clue about anything historical. It is amazing what people do not know.
As an aside. That clip just reinforces why I don't watch so called "news" programs anymore. The condescending tone of voice and stupid comments and stupid questions from that announcer just grates on the brain.
Also....the main and ONLY reason that they do these archeological digs is to preserve Native American artifacts. If they find that an Indian camped, threw out their garbage or pooped in the area you will have to totally reroute the entire project and spend millions upon millions of dollars to do it. Years ago, we knew a contractor who was building a very expensive custom home and during excavation came upon some artifacts and several skeletons. He quietly reburied the stuff away from the site and went on with the work. Shhhhhh......nothing to see here....move along.
In my mind?
The thoughts of what my life might have been like if I had taken those various other forks in the road and wonder if there might not be alternate realities where those different lives and different Me's exist. One where I didn't marry that person and married another. One where I had other children or none. One where I took a different career path. One where I didn't decide to move from one city to another and where life took a completely unexpected turn.
Perhaps we touch those other realities and our other selves in our dreams. Do they dream about ME?
My mind is really cluttered. I really must do something about those dust bunny thoughts.
Also....the main and ONLY reason that they do these archeological digs is to preserve Native American artifacts. If they find that an Indian camped, threw out their garbage or pooped in the area you will have to totally reroute the entire project and spend millions upon millions of dollars to do it. Years ago, we knew a contractor who was building a very expensive custom home and during excavation came upon some artifacts and several skeletons. He quietly reburied the stuff away from the site and went on with the work. Shhhhhh......nothing to see here....move along.
That's not really true.
In another life, while I was actively working in the field, I participated in contract excavations for new highways, schools, federally funded elderly housing, the closing of a major military base on the eastern seaboard (like...literally on the water), a new public high school, a multi state natural gas pipeline and a crap load of other things.
Never did any of those projects have to be re-routed.
For instance, where they put the high school--literally where the entrance hall is now--I found (I was the only one working that day. My crew was a bunch of sissies scared of a a light rain, but we were on a deadline) an Early Archaic site. Meaning about 12,000 years ago people essentially like me camped on that hillside overlooking the sweet little lake with a mountain looming over it and did the work necessary to survive a harsh northeastern winter.
That's pretty fucking cool.
And just at the bottom of the hill? A contact site. Meaning there were colonial artifacts mixed in with Late Woodland pottery and projectile points.
Were they trading or raiding?
Once history is gone it's gone man.
@ Cody
Don't get me wrong. I am all FOR archeology. That was actually my major in College (eons ago) Meso-American Anthropology and Archeology.
However, in California you cannot have a construction project without a "Native American" standing around getting paid to be a Native American observer, many of whom have practically no professional credentials. All of the construction guys I know consider them a giant PITA. There have been several bridge retrofit projects and roads that have had to be completely re-engineered and re-routed because an artifact has been found. Not that I want those things destroyed.
Since the big blow up about Kennewick Man and the obvious politically motivated agenda on the part of the current Native Americans, I have no sympathy for their cause. If they truly wanted to know the archeological history of the country and know their OWN history, they would not be frantically trying to cover up the discovery of important findings just because it doesn't jive with their own fantasies of their history.
In their minds anything and everything that is found is somehow their very own possession and subject to being destroyed, hidden or removed at their own will, instead of being legitimately studied.
According to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, if human remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affiliation to a Native American tribe can be established, the affiliated tribe may claim them. The Umatilla tribe requested custody of the remains, wanting to bury them according to tribal tradition. Their claim was contested by researchers hoping to study the remains.
The Umatilla argued that their oral history goes back 10,000 years and say that their people have been present on their historical territory since the dawn of time,[16] so a government statement that Kennewick Man is not Native American is detrimental to their religious beliefs.
Fuck off, Umatillas. Get over yourselves.
Martin, I just read a piece in the Daily Mail today. An archaeological dig just determined that people 6000 years ago liked spicy food. They found hot mustard seeds stored in pottery.
Meaning about 12,000 years ago people essentially like me camped on that hillside overlooking the sweet little lake with a mountain looming over it and did the work necessary to survive a harsh northeastern winter.
@ Cody
I am currently reading Across Atlantic Ice (rather dry and anal in describing the artifacts) but quite interesting. Very interesting and does shine some interesting lights on Kennewick Man and other anomalies such as Spirit Cave and Lovelock Nevada findings, where **caucasoid types of remains that predate the current phenotype of native americans have been found. Remains that the current NAs want destroyed or hidden. Pre Clovis culture artifacts found on the Eastern coast and even some on the Atlantic shelf which was exposed during the last Glacial Maximum.
It is of course all theory, but we will never be able to study it if the NA's have their way and destroy any findings or artifacts.
**Caucasoid does NOT mean white people. It is a forensic anthropological description of the skeletal remains.
Too much coffee. Did I say interesting enough times?
Mitchell, I heard one lady say they thought the Chinese came through the state by the railroad but the artifacts indicate the came earlier than that, the first gold rush. And I thought in that moment.
OMG, I didn't know that!
She continued, saying the opiates in the bottles suggest the men went downtown to the pubsxxxxx saloons to get alcohol and opium and the prostitutes stayed on the edges and had their own alcohol and opium in the otc medicine they were all taking, cough syrups and such. And I was all,
OMG I did not know that!
Sounds like Deadwood.
DBQ, I have that book on my shelf but haven't gotten around to it yet.
DBQ@11:20/
You too, eh? :)
I think I have dreams that serve no other purpose than to show me what my other selves are doing in those alternative universes.
Last night I dreamed that my wife and I lived in a luxury high rise condo. She went out of town and I was drowsing on a daybed in the living room after talking to my wife on the phone. Another woman came in with luggage and started moving into the bedroom. When she saw me she started yelling and screaming.
I was glad when I woke up. I think that other me had a hell of a time after that.
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