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What would happen if we assumed ancient man was intelligent? One man did just that, and I haven’t been able to stop talking about it since, which, incidentally, is a substantial reason to have 10 children, all of which you homeschool. Captive audience. Professor John O’Shea is an archaeologist with the University of Michigan, who…
Once upon a time, two brothers landed on an island in the Pacific, and convinced the thousands of people who lived there to forsake their relatively peaceful, low-maintenance life, and devote their energy and time to building Nan Madol, a megalithic city. (Or we can believe the local legend that they built it with the help…
What would induce you to live on a cliff, like the Mesa Verde cliffdwellers did? I’m talking a 600ft drop on one side, and rise of 50-100ft above you. Your family lives in a crack in the stone face, with no water source and no room for a garden. To reach your home, you have…
Have you ever noticed that our expectations for ancient man are similar to those for toddlers? Hear me out:1. They aren’t allowed to use power tools.2. They can’t be motivated by practicality.3. They must believe in Santa Claus and bogeymen under the bed. Yes, I know, it sounds weird, but let’s look at Gobekli Tepe. Discovered in 1994, this site…
Late in the fall of 1896, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, scholars fresh from Oxford took the steamer to Cairo. They wanted to become Famous Archaeologists during a period when the British were fascinated by ancient Egyptian artifacts. So fascinated that said artifacts were disappearing from Egypt like sliced grapes from a toddler’s plate. They decided to dig…
When you think about ancient technology, how often does potting soil come to mind? Well, it should. The soil of the Amazon is generally poor, acidic, and leaches nutrients like a sieve. Growing food there is a nightmare—unless you happen upon, or go looking for, some of the intensely fertile, beautiful black gold put there…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (P) – Mrs. Ola Bragg Minter’s automobile sideswiped another car Sunday. Police said Mrs. Minter continued up the street without stopping. A mile away she failed to make a curve and the car turned sideways, ripping up a street sign and 20-foot iron advertising sign. Righting itself, the automobile rolled through a service…
Albany, Dec. 1, AP Mrs. Ed Scofield credited a Chesapeake retriever dog today with saving the life of her 17-month-old son Larry. She said the dog, owned by the family, came to her in the yard and led her to a neighbor’s fish pond. There Larry, soaking wet, was lying beside the pool. Teeth marks…
WACO, Texas (AP) – Mrs. Burgman Black, intent on a fine spring garden, purchased a sack of commercial fertilizer and stored in the garage. At the first opportunity she carefully mixed what she thought was the fertilizer with soil in her garden, did her planting, and then gave it all a good soaking. The next…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Oct. 9 (AP) — A little girl walked into the Sioux Falls post office to mail a package. M. T. Stark was on duty at the parcel post counter. “Would you please wrap this for me?” the little girl asked. Stark smiled and proceeded to wrap the package. Completing the job, he…