The hotel where I’m staying in Tucson is across the street from the Arizona History Museum where I saw this statue of Father Eusebio Kino, SJ. Father Kino (1645 – 1711) was an early explorer and missionizer in what is now Baja California and Arizona. For some reason I was particularly struck by the astrolabe …
Author: Reid Farmer
Windshield Family
One of the recent fads that I find annoying is what I call “windshield families” – you know, those semi-stick figure decals that show all of the parents, kids and pets on the back window of their car. I started seeing these in California a few years ago and now they are all over the …
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Some Cold War Birds
Back in the summer we were up doing some fieldwork on a project in eastern Oregon. We drove past the airport in Ontario several times and I noticed a couple of Cold War-era military jets from the road. Later I got to stop by and saw there was a small collection of these around the …
Albert Einstein’s Office
I am posting this picture as a public service for anyone (like me) who catches grief about having a messy office.
Pre-Clovis Mastodon Kill
Yesterday afternoon, NPR had this interesting story on the reanalysis of material from a mastodon kill site in Washington state that was originally excavated in the late 1970s. The reanalysis was conducted by the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M and they found that the kill dates to 13,800 years …
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The BBC tells us that archaeologists have found a 1,000 year-old viking boat burial in Scotland. That’s a seriously rusty sword and axe. A new study shows that much of the Paleolithic rock art in France’s Rouffignac cave complex was made by children. This finding supports similar points on the role of children in rock …
Cat Encounter
Cool pictures from today’s Denver Post. Up in Boulder, a house cat and a young cougar agree to disagree. Luckily for the house cat the door was closed. Click through for a slide show.
Denver Art Museum – California Indian Collections
I had read in the paper earlier this year that the Denver Art Museum had totally revamped their North American Indian galleries. I was in to visit a few weeks ago, and wanted to share some new California tribal items that I saw. I thought the Condor feather cape that you see above was just …