Archaeology of the contemporary past, that's what we're looking at . . .

On 10/4/07, Davis, Richard D Mr CTR USA IMCOM <[log in to unmask]>
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> Bob,
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> I am enjoying the sputnik anniversary remembrances -- even though my
> direct memories of the original event are hazy.  I do clearly remember a lot
> of the aftermath, including many scrambling efforts to teach us youngsters
> better science so we could catch up.
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> But alas, the launch of sputnik did not start the Cold War.  That was
> already going strong in 1957.  There are a lot of Cold War properties older
> than that, including the former Clarksville Base here at Fort Campbell.
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> Richard D. Davis, MA
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> Cultural Resource Program Coordinator
> Fort Campbell, KY
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bob
> Skiles
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:40 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Sputnik ... beep ... beep ... beep
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> I thought it might be of interest to "boomer" archaeologists (born around
> 1950 or earlier ... there's quite a few of us older guys still around here)
> who have worked on Cold War military sites and collections (e.g., our
> archaeology lab at the University of North Texas was formerly a Nike missle
> base ... our archaeological collections were actually curated in the old
> missle silos ... we simply drove our vehicles onto the elevators that
> formerly were used to rise-and-lower the missles to load-and-unload boxes of
> artifacts at the bottom of the silos) ... the launch of Sputnik was really a
> significant event in all of our lives, and changed our (your) whole world.
> It's launch marked the beginning of the Cold War. It didn't seem seemly to
> let the 50th anniversary of such a world-altering event pass un-noted.
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> > And what does this have to do with archaeology?
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