Subject: RE: [powderworks] (NMOC) 'If Ned Kelly was King' Archaeological dig |
From: "Terry Johnson" <tenacious@cyberback.com> |
Date: 11/07/2009, 3:41 am |
To: |
That’s really cool!
Before I went to college and
studied astronomy, I thought I wanted to be an archaeologist. My interests lies in the Central to South
American cultures, but any kind of dig is just fascinating.
On another related note: I found my very first authentic
arrowhead this week! Yes, I know
that for where I live in the U.S. they can be found in many places around me,
and a lot of shops will sell them to you cheap. But one made 200 years ago is practically
indistinguishable from one made 5 min. ago, so I don’t really hold
arrowheads as ‘special’.
But I found this one in my garden (I live way out from people on land my
family’s owned for almost 100 years), so I know it’s really old. And it actually is kinda
special for this area because the topsoil is rich and any artifacts sink down,
which doesn’t make finding them very easy. So, yay for
me! Way to notice that there was a
piece of flint where there shouldn’t have been. :o)
Ummm, to make this MO related – I was
humming Burnie
at the time. Does that work?
--Terry
From: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
[mailto:powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au] On Behalf Of Jo Daley
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:23 AM
To: Oils
Subject: [powderworks] (NMOC) 'If Ned Kelly was King' Archaeological dig
Anyone
who's into Oz history, I'm
currently at uni studying Archaeology & History & was lucky enough
last year to attend my first dig. It happened to be the first excavation done
on the site of the old Inn in Glenrowan that burned down during the Ned Kelly
shootout. The whole dig was filmed & it's on ABC tomorrow ( Thursday 9th)
at 830pm. Don't know if I'll even be seen, being only a humble student, but I
should be easily recognisable as I wore a variety of familiar tshirts :) It's
narrated by Tony Robinson (Baldrick) & should be interesting, if very
short. The dig went for four weeks, the show goes for only one hour. Imagine
editing that!! Cheers,
Jo. |
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