Saturday, February 24, 2024

On a hilltop south of Sloan Canyon, NV

 

Note various signs of ceremonialism in the foreground.

Sunday, February 11, 2024

A good day arrowhead hunting

Sometimes on a good day you find more than one arrowhead. The ensemble takes on a particular life of its own: the life of that day in the field. Each time you go out you have the focus that you bring to the moment and you have the conditions that are there anyway. Out of this and mother luck come a find or two, a deep sense of accomplishment and a frame captured by the arrowheads. I love the stems on these arrowheads:

Or


Woo hoo! Thank you Rhode Island.

Thursday, February 01, 2024

Nevada Colors

I have to imagine there is some turquoise rock in there:

(north west end of the Spring Mountains)

Friday, January 26, 2024

What is wrong with 100K years ago for the "First American"?

According to the internet (I have been curious about bighorn sheep):

The ancestors of bighorn sheep resided in the mountain and desert regions of Eurasia from early Pleistocene. Crossing the Bering land bridge during the late Pleistocene (100,000 years ago), they spread to mountains of Europe, North Africa, Asia and North America. True goats (Capra) are closest relatives. May 16, 2023

Since there were reasonably competent hominids all over Asia by that time, I cannot imagine why they could not have walked in the same places as those "First Sheep".

American archaeology is such garbage. There are unsolved problems all around and data going unexplored. But it seems most of the money goes to studying pretty pottery.