Our granddaughter Bella got her first visit with the ponies last weekend courtesy of our old friends at PDM Stables in Bakersfield. Here she is taking a seat on Peanut with her mom’s help. I’m told she seemed a little concerned about being that high up off the ground, but overall she really liked the …
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These days, drone aircraft deploy their own drones. Cicada is a strange choice for a name – too noisy for a stealthy drone. Think you can train cats to walk on a leash? May be easier than herding them. A new study indicates the ancient city of Angkor and the Khmer Empire may have been …
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you from all of us at Querencia blog. We are having a white Christmas here at Moonshine Gulch and from what I have seen of the weather reports, Steve and Libby are too down in Magdalena.
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If I was going to be in New York, I’d go to this exhibit of material from the Roman city of Dura-Europos. I have previously read a fair amount about information that excavations at Dura-Europos have provided on the Roman Army in the later empire. One of the most interesting finds there apparently gives evidence …
Gobekli Tepe
I wish that I had posted on the very important archaeological site of Gobekli Tepe last summer when the article about it came out in National Geographic Magazine. It got yanked back to my attention when I read this extremely annoying article about it in the latest New Yorker. Gobekli Tepe is a site in …
Old Stuff
Doing the sort of consulting work that we do in archaeology, we mostly don’t get to break significant new ground in research. We don’t get to pick where we do our work: the client decides where he wants to build his project. Actually, we devote much effort helping our client find places to put his …
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Roaming around the internets, I keep bumping into stories about zombie ants. Apparently a fungus infects an ant’s brain and causes it to wander away from the nest and die so the fungus can consume the entire body. Maybe some of you biologically savvy folks know more about this. Makes for awesome pictures and the …
Agricultural Archaeology and More
Here is an article I found via the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Mississippi River floods from the spring of this year have apparently scoured away enough sediment to expose a cotton field that was buried by the legendary 1927 Mississippi River floodin Coahoma County, Mississippi. From the article: “Like washing away a layer of mud from the …
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We’ve posted several times here at the Q blog about the expansion of jaguar range back into southern Arizona, but until I saw this article I didn’t know ocelots were back as well. Names are proposed for two new elements that will be added to the periodic table. I know why they’re doing it, but …
Star of India
As I said in my rock art post earlier this week, early in the week I was in Boise for a field trip and agency meeting for a project in that area. Thursday, I flew from Boise to San Diego for a field trip and public meeting for a power plant project down there on …