paved with good intentions. So spoke my Grandmother, many, many, times. Not always at me, maybe.
Some posts on the back burner here. A couple need the panoramic of dig pictures put together I took years ago and not a damn clue how. One is of a truncated prehistoric mound in West Virgina and another is a canal basin site in Pennsylvania. A post on a matrilineal society, from the inside looking out or from a voyeurs perspective being in the governmental part of it. SwampBlossom needs to give her interview for the Female perspective and I guess I'll have to interview her for it. It appears a combination writing isn't going to happen. Current med, Ritalin, is rather an interesting experience. A be careful what you wish for, maybe. Still happening, so that one probably best wait.
I should also get another warning up on this place. Taking it down didn't seem to matter any. But forewarned seems fair.
So consider yourselves forewarned, I have good intentions.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
The road to Hull is paved with Tarmac.
I think you would call it blacktop?
Guess how close THIS is to my house?
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/5000yearold-home-of-capitals-first.5097272.jp
A lot of different usages of words for paved, paved being one of them. In the past around here, some of the back hill roads were called McAdam, haven't heard the term used in a long time. The dynamics have changed for this small town somewhat. A good deal of them are still "dirt" although improved in the sense they occasionally smooth the ruts out sometime in the spring, maybe.
NOW you're talking my language. That's one very sweet find. Although I do wonder about the statement in The Scotsman about it position being for the impressive view and it's importance for the viewing. Sounds like defense to me. Academics like to think their finds are more along the lines of every damn thing they find as being in the "Ceremonial" class.
I have a theory that farming on the world scale is much much older then is currently thought. I formed the theory while in a tree, lol, I may admit to the why and probably have elsewhere, if not here. I think it could be proved too. They just aren't going at it right and it would take a certain kind of area to prove it. The canal basin site I want to get up was an extremely big project with the canal basin itself being a very small part of it. A bit further south of it we had a prehistoric site going and we pushed back the date for farming in Pennsylvania a good bit. It was not an awe inspiring site, although rather nice in it's own way, if the damn highway hadn't been marring our view. Noisy damn dig and they often were as the time limit for the project diminished we often had the heavy construction equipment ripping things up as we tried to get the last of something out.
How far? Far enough away to not hear the constant quarry noise I do hope, but in eye sight I do hope. What are they mining?
In this country if Federal funds are used for any construction it is mandatory for the Archs to take a look. Some States require it if State funds are used, but so much is lost when that kind of money isn't being lent. Very glad the Council required it. Hellava sweet find.
I have what we call a Terminal Archaic site in my own back yard, I think. Hard to know becuase I only pulled a couple of fire broken, I think, partial diagnostics for the little I did with it. Might be worth a post of it's own someday. It was funny how I found it to begin with. Have a site about a mile away that I think might date to about 8-9000 BC, no diagnostic yet, but the tool kit and the location points very hard to the Paleo Period, Crowfield type kit, right down to the fire damage. As much as I rambled up and down the East Coast doing contract work and prowled for hundreds of miles in Pennsylvania and New York State's on my own, I found some of the very best Arch in my own area and as it turned out, in my own back yard. People tend to look at exotic places and ignore what they have near them and you don't and that I find admirable. Although if I ever get over your way you have been marked for a guided tour. I'm like that. :)
http://anthropology.uwo.ca/cje/Crowfield.htm
This is one web address for the Crowfield site. The literature I have on it was the initial report and they were trying to make the case for a burial, which is kind of lacking for good solid evidence.
I would be embarrassed to have the picture taken for the unit photo. Sloppy work for the floor. The majority of the materials used look like Western Onondaga chert, very distinctive mottling to it. On the last two photos if you look carefully there are what appear to be pits or circle shaped missing portions to the tools, on the surface of the tools themselves. It is caused by them being in or very near a fire and the trapped moisture causing a "blow out" or as we call it, pot lid. The reason it is called that is if you look at the bottom of a cast iron pot lid, it often is very rough on the inside and the shape lends itself to the blow outs. The blow outs are very rough. The tool kit I found on the site near by here is very big in size, very contrary to what is normal for this area and fits perfectly right down to the material and pot lidding. The material itself comes from the Buffalo, New York area some 200? miles away and goes to show how far they would travel or trade, even in Paleo times, for the material they desired and they were very fussy when it came to material. (All but roughly two cultures in my area did anyway, travel or trade far and wide and even those two did.) I was working as a supervisor for a home run outfit and showed the tools to my boss. He saw the pieces and said, "By god, I think you've done it.". And it is on glacial till, unfortuantly, and in a plow zone, which means finding much intact or in situ would be very hard. However, I do think part of it may have been protected by soil movement over time from the sloop of the hill behind it. I do see some fire reddening of the soil and charcoal but both are questionable. I don't dig unless it will be destroyed, but that one probably should be.
The site quarries aggregrate for a firm called Tarmac...see how my brain works LoL.
I'll gie ye a wee bit mair o' ma history.
You should be able to figure that one out;-)
Back in '79 I had the chance of two rather exciting summer jobs.
One was a digger in the Roman/Saxon/Norse excavations at York...with keep and board.
Or at a whisky bottling plant.
I've regretted my pecuniary(and booze loving) decision ever since...
Post a Comment