Advocate for peace, justice, and a life well lived. Pete and Toshi Seeger were married for 70 years, until her death in 2013.
Originally by the Weavers and covered by many others, but it seems it works best as a duet.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
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Hunter-Gatherer Tooth Decay
Another example of things not being as simple you like to think: Evidence of tooth decay found in Moroccan hunter-gatherers from over 13,000 years ago. Tooth decay is usually associated with agricultural populations. As seen at Past Horizons. Abstract of the research article is at PNAS.
Giant Beaver from Chicago
Great Libraries from Architectural Digest
Yes, the New York Public Library and Trinity College are both in this slideshow, but there’s over a dozen more, both very new and very old. Article by Tim McKeough.
Paisley Cave Coprolites May Not Be From Humans
Well, this keeps Pre-Clovis studies interesting. As reported by Western Digs,
Now, reporting in the Journal of Archaeological Science, another team of researchers says that its analysis of the oldest coprolite from the cave suggests it’s from an herbivore, not a human.
“The specimen under study … was not excreted by a human,” said Ainara Sistiaga, an archaeologist and visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in an interview.
“Our results show a predominance of the product of … plant intake. This value is too high to represent a human origin.”
The entrance to one of the Paisley Caves in Oregon. Source: Wikipedia/Bureau of Land Management.
Archaeology, Xbox, and the Legendary E.T. Video Game
USA Today, among others, recently reported that original TV series to be produced for the new Xbox TV will focus on the story of the E.T. video game for the original Atari videogame console. The game is often considered the worst video game ever released, and according to legend, millions of unsold or returned game cartridges were buried in a landfill in Alamagordo, New Mexico in 1983.
The documentary reportedly will include an excavation of the landfill in an attempt to find the remains of the E.T. game cartridges. Paul Mullins has been on top of this story:
An excavation of the Atari dump does not promise an especially compelling material analysis as much as it plumbs the complexities of memory and dissects the intersection of popular imagination and materiality… It seems unlikely that the recovery of any discarded ET games or Atari gaming systems will radically rewrite our understanding of Atari or the broader industry in the early 1980s, …Yet the process of digging the dump—the literal theater of an excavation—is what Fuel is leveraging when observers invoke the project as “archaeology.”
