Due to an unfortunate fiasco related to the switch to Daylight Savings Time
and how the scheduling software works, this week's show will air at 10 PM
instead of the usual 9 PM. I tried to correct it, but March Madness has all
the 9 PM slots filled. Next week is back on track.


Hello Loopers!

In this issue:

This Week's Show: General discussions

Op/Ed: Tools of the trade, A listener's Reply

Other news: Mummified Dino Uncovered—Skin and All

Events: Send your organization's events to oz@...

Last week's show: OLC

Next week's show: Dr. Tom Van Flandern , REALLY out of place artifacts

Site of the week A Historiography of Monks' Mound



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This Week's Show: General discussions. Part will be a recap of last week's
discussions about Monks' Mound.


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Op/Ed: Tools of the Trade

A listener and newsletter subscriber who also happens to be a working
archeologist replied to my op/ed piece, Tools of the Trade and gave me
permission to publish it. (edited for privacy concerns)

Dear Oz,

Your op-eds get ever better and better.

Almost all real archaeologists-and also their grad students, who have jobs
and PhDs, or who are soon to be looking, cannot write about our alleged main
subject, sometimes called diffusion.

Almost all of this big subset of good people will not, cannot? easily
write to a diffusionist, either.

There are some exceptions. The guy at uroregon, semi-retired, is the best
one of these.

This leaves diffusion to:

1. A very few retired real ones.

2. Guys and gals with an ma or with somewhere between an ma and a PhD, who
are not trying to get academically improved.

3. Guys and gals who have some other, usually also not to the PhD level of
training, that involves both or either hard sciences and/ or social sciences
formal education, or very occasionally PhDs who are for some reason
blackballed as regular job-type workers.

4. Those who see themselves as real amateurs, or non-traditional workers,
who sometimes can be quite gifted.

5 Traditional, very well known diffusionists, accepted as real scholars by
us, and by a very few regular archaeological PhDs-including especially G
Farley, Wayne May and John White II.

6. Occasionally, a real PhD Historian, and a number now of Geologists.

7. A few foreign scholars, some very eminent.

8. David Humiston Kelley.

If real scholars get involved, they will impose, or try to impose, the
kind of discipline, almost immediately, that you write so eloquently about
in your op-ed.

They, but not all of them, will get very upset about how data is and has
been acquired, especially when the data has been acquired in the past by
non-Orthodox, non-fully professional excavation and space-time frame
proveniencings-recordings means.

There is a good chance now that such "getting involved" can take place
soon.

The very recent and sudden shift in paradigm about the origins-age of the
first large urban communities [cities] from 3400 BC, to about 5700-5000 BC
seems accepted.

Other, similar in scope, paradigm shifts may also be difficult for the
real archaeologists, especially in our country, to accept, however.



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Possum Holler News:

More rain. So much so, I actually have to drive seventeen miles to get to
town instead of the usual eight miles. The county has run out of "High
Water" warning signs to post and is relying on radio announcements for the
rest...I need one in the studio.

I have a new batch of OLC business cards coming. Let me know if you want
some.



Other news:

a.. Iron Age remains found on British school site - Archaeologists have
found what they think is the remains of an Iron Age settlement under part of
a Wearside school (Sunderland, England). The surprising discovery was made
by experts carrying...
a.. Historic Scotland urged to give broch visitor numbers - A challenge is
being laid down for Historic Scotland to come forward with visitor numbers
to the Clickimin Broch in Lerwick (Shetland) after hopes access to the
monument could be...
a.. Pictograph in NZ derived from ancient Asian-Pacific culture? - Hanging
Rock's famous Ruataniwha image is probably derived from an Asian-Pacific
culture more than 4000 years old, according to geographer, ecologist and
planner Haikai Tane. Prof Tane is an exper...
a.. Controversy over M3 motorway in Ireland still rages on - The Irish
National Roads Authority is insisting that construction work on the
controversial M3 motorway in Co Meath (Ireland) is not damaging a protected
national monument at Rath Lugh. Campaigners...
a.. Native Americans traced to 6 'Founding Mothers' -


a.. Mummified Dino Uncovered—Skin and All -

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Last week's show: OLC

Vince Barrows, Steve Hilgren, and I discussed the logistics of building
Monks' Mound. Vince has compiled an insight filled essay and posted it to
the web. Link below (Site of the Week)



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Next week's show: Dr. Tom Van Flandern , REALLY out of place artifacts


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Site of the week A Historiography of Monks' Mound



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