Hey all:
Thanks to everyone who helped me find a new name for this newsletter. I got
something on the order of 25 different suggestions; a poll of the first five
that came in garnered 19 votes, most of which were for Shards;
unfortunately, I learned that Shards was already taken. Among the short list
were Trowel Trawl, Debitage, Pedantic Jerks (with apologies to Alan Day who
didn't really suggest this, but I laughed so I had to think about it), The
Tel, Paralipomena, Notes from the Underground, Trowel Rack, and Screened
Gems. The others are listed here:
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&tsn=1&tid=3486&webtag=
ab-archaeology
A Walking Tour of Machu Picchu
http://archaeology.about.com/od/walkingtours/?nl=1
The residential palace of the Inca king Pachacuti has drawn tourists from
all over the world because of its lovely impossible location at the edge of
the world. Gina Carey was at Machu Picchu during the Summer of 2004, and she
passed along some great photographs to look at and talk about.
Archaeology or Archeology?
http://archaeology.about.com/od/apthroughasterms/g/archeology.htm?nl=1
"Archeology" is an alternate spelling for Archaeology. Both spellings are
accepted by most scholars today, although the print version of the Oxford
English Dictionary (OED) insists on 'archæology', with the ligature in the
middle. A description of the etymology of archaeology and archeology, part
of the Archaeology Dictionary here at About.com.
Question of the Week: How Many Artifacts are There?
http://archaeology.about.com/od/questionoftheweek/qt/artifact_ct.htm?nl=1
The Question of the Week is from Amber, who asks: How many artifacts have
been collected from archaeological sites, is there a catalog of all that,
and can just anybody access the catalog? And if there isn't how in the world
do archaeologists know anything?
Ode to Thee, Sweet Bucket Auger
http://archaeology.about.com/od/poetry/a/bucket_auger.htm
Archaeology sometimes requires digging deep holes in river valley sediments,
performed by archaeologists with a bucket auger, a screen and a pit partner.
After a while, the bucket auger is all you can think of, and so, one late
November day, with all the fondness and revulsion of the best kind, I wrote
this poem to my rickety bucket auger. If anybody has a picture of bucket
auger testing, this poem could really stand an illustration.
Thanks for reading! Please feel free to pass it along....
K. Kris Hirst
About Archaeology
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