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| Copper Ax Found by Detectorist Chris Andy. Source: Pennarchaeology.com. See link below. |
An archaeological society newsletter provides an account of the prehistoric copper ax found by detectorist and avocation archaeologist Chris Andy. Below are some excerpts.
But Andy wouldn’t confirm all of this for several years - not until he saw an article in the local newspaper about an upcoming Indian Artifact Show. He was scheduled to work that Saturday, and couldn’t attend, so he contacted the show’s organizers and handed it over...
Tom "Tank" Baird, a local avocation archaeologist and historian with Northcentral Chapter 8, Society for Pennsylvania, made it his mission to learn as much as he could about the oxidized, irregular chunk of metal that had somehow ended up more than a thousand miles, and thousands of years, from the copper nugget outcrop that yielded it.
Baird estimates the artifact is possibly 5,000-years-old, a copper ax that is one among several copper items found in Lycoming County. He'll discuss the artifact, and the copper culture and trade routes of Native Americans in Pennsylvania, at an upcoming talk at the Lycoming County Historical Society....
Here is the link for the rest of that story.
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Here is a short clip of a video that I took at John Brooks yesterday. I tried to post it yesterday, but I had to shorten the clip before I could download it. So here is the first part of it. The waves were nicely formed. I think there was probably some good surfing at some locations on the Treasure Coast yesterday and perhaps today as well.
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| Source: ScienceNews link below. |
Hunter-gatherers who lived more than 2,000 years ago near the top of the world appear to have run ironworking operations as advanced as those of farming societies far to the south...
Ancient hunter-gatherers at two Swedish sites “probably manufactured more iron and steel, and were more socially organized and sedentary than we previously thought,” says Luleå archaeologist and coauthor Kristina Söderholm.
Groups must have settled down for substantial amounts of time at locations near crucial resources, such as ores for prospecting, wood needed to make charcoal and clay and stone required for building furnaces and fire pits used in iron production, the scientists say...
Here is that link.
Arctic hunter-gatherers were advanced ironworkers more than 2,000 years ago | Science News
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One college made a list of phrases that should be banned. I agree with the sentiment, but not banning. Even though the phrases may be generally trite, imprecise, annoying and often nearly meaningless, they still reveal a lot about the speaker.
Here is the link.
I could add a long list just from professional communicators on TV, such as weight in on or take a listen. Very symptomatic of the current state of the society.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
The tides are pretty good now. The surf predictions are kind of interesting.
Happy hunting,
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