Prior to picking up the puppies last week, I drove down to Durango, Colorado for the annual meeting of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists where I was presenting a paper. On the way down I took this picture of Chimney Rock, in Archuleta County. There is an important prehistoric Puebloan site on top of …
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Two Puppies and a Baby
Puppy pick-up was last Sunday, when we met Curt and Susan Boyd in a shopping mall parking lot in Albuquerque. We couldn’t get over how much they had grown. They did fine in a crate behind the front seat of the Explorer. They slept most of the way back to Denver. We have decided on …
Old Puppy Picture
I was showing my sister-in-law pictures of the new pups last night and ran across this picture of daughter Lauren and Osa, the first Aussie we had the pleasure to be associated with. It was taken in 1983, back when they were both pups. Lauren and I were just discussing the other day how much …
Neanderthal Use of Eagle Talons
Steve’s friend Laura Niven sent this interesting journal article that apparently documents the modification of raptor talons by Neanderthals for use as jewelry or some other symbolic use. This is in line with the discovery in recent years of Neanderthal manufactured shell beads and pendants, Neanderthal use of ochre pigments, and possible Neanderthal cave art. …
Pleistocene Park
People have been talking about this for years, and now it appears someone is actually going to do it: Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000 Year-old Beast.
Puppy Pictures
The Boyds have posted some new pictures of the boys. Puppy pick-up is a week from Sunday.
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This beautiful gold plaque is illustrated in a NY Times review of an exhibition of ancient art from Kazakhstan. How to tell if you are an old fart. I liked this one: If the phrase “turn of the century” makes you think of the year 1900, you are an old fart.The Encyclopedia Britannica will no …
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Western Samizdat
I know Steve is very busy working on galleys for his new eagle book, so I figured I would put up a link to a very complimentary piece by Bill Croke that was in today’s American Spectator. The subtitle says it all: If you haven’t read New Mexico writer Stephen Bodio, it’s time you did.
Trans-Atlantic Migration Theory
In the last week or so, the UK Independent and the Washington Post have both carried stories about new evidence that might support the trans-atlantic migration theory for peopling of the New World advanced in the 1990s by Dennis Stanford (Smithsonian Institution) and Bruce Bradley (University of Exeter). I was just looking back and I …