Wow.. I wish I new about all of it long long before...

[Cheyenne]

I wasn't actually going to start a trench without permission.. That would just be totally irresponsible!!

But maybe they would like to find out what is under there!!

i did my training in Social Archaeology - with theoretical implications of the senses - I worked with a guy called Julian Thomas, who is one of the worlds most well known authorities on the Neolithic of Britain and also in areas of philosophy of archaeology - his brain is quite possibly the size of a planet!

That being said - I would be more than willing to do a workshop at BM on Social archaeology - quite a lot of popularity is being given over to archaeolgical research of the recent past... it was actually an American archaeolgist who coined the phrase 'In small things forgotten' (J Deetz 1981) His work on 18th Century archaeology in Virginia is very famous for giving importance over to the significance of items such as buttons, coins, small trinkets, clay pipes etc in exposing the biographies of the ordinary people.

[Boijoy]

makes me want to guy bury some crazy shit in the playa for Cheyenne to find.

[theCryptofishist]

Nah, that's for the geocachers to find. It doesn't count if it wasn't left there by accident.

The story a few years back about the slave cemetery they found in Manhatten a few years back was quite moving, and I love it when they find an old ship in San Francisco.

Archelogist was one of the things I wanted to be when I was a kid.

[winterdream28]

[quote="Neek"]thx for the info. The more information I have the more prepared I become.
I guess RV is a nice option, again in depends on amount of ppl I convince to go with me. If to say by truth, I don't feel that convincing is a right word. It's either Wow or Whatever. I don't mind going by myself. Now I regret, I've bought a sports coupe, not a Hummer
The misspelling part was made on purpose, it just felt to be right this way. If I [b]knew[/b] about BM before, I would get [b]new[/b] friends, [b]new [/b]emotions,[b] new[/b] vision, [b]new[/b] smiles, [b]new[/b] memories sooner
thx again![/quote]

Hey there!

I totally can follow you on this.... the whole convincing part....

Have a lot of friends I would like to share this experience, moment, and time with but still feel like none of them were in WOW like me:)....

Like i literally cant get the anticipation for the week out of my mind:)

Im glad there are people out there that can still see the beauty,emotion, and thrill in the simple things:)

[Cheyenne]

Maybe its just a thought, but what about all the people who can't get their mates to get off their arses and come to BM club together and meet up and hire a camper?

That would save some pennies

PS - Those sites such as slave cemeteries and penal colonies are particularly emotional to deal with, as are the graves of Irish infants who died during the potato famine... A friend of mine had the misfortune to have to excavate a mass grave of 6 children in Southern Ireland on a commercial dig a couple of years back as they were building a massive motorway right through it not a month later

[Eric]

Found the article I was talking about- from the Sept/ Oct issue of Archaeology.

Conversation: Among the Burners

This might have been posted earlier, I can't remember.

[Cheyenne]

Thats really interesting Eric, thanks for sharing!

I was thinking about the same thing really - It would be excellent to do an archaeological study of the ephemerality of BM, My work in Scotland centres around the transitions between complex hunter gatherer societies and how they use temporary settlement sites and the move (in the archaeological record) to sedantism....

Makes for an interesting project!

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[AntiM]

Found the article I was talking about- from the Sept/ Oct issue of Archaeology.

Conversation: Among the Burners

This might have been posted earlier, I can't remember.

I enjoyed that, I was going to post the link but got distracted. However, I found it interesting that the LNT principle was not mentioned at all.

[gyre]

When I'm bored I make crude tools from aluminum or unobtainium, and leave them in potential dig sites.

Naturally I'm careful to leave the layering intact.

[pinemom]

Hi Neek,
Due to the whole world going kinda finacially crazy, at this point in time, one can almost find a rv/travel trailer to PURCHASE on craigslist or other buy/sell as cheap as it is to rent...then you own it!


On the archeology idea...no offense but that would be the last thing Black rock city needed...someone to come in and call "native american indian" or "prehistoric animals"

Then Bm at Black rock city, Nv. would be over.done. finit-o

[theCryptofishist]

Piney
That's not what she was thinking about. She was thinking about studying citizens of BRC from an archeological perspective. A very different animal. I think that it has the possibility of teaching us a lot about ourselves, as well as teaching her things about how ephemerality works with nomadic human and temporary occupants.
And one thing we do know, is that the Indians didn't live out on the lakebed--too hostile, so I don't think you need worry on that score.

[Cheyenne]

GO FISHY!

[Neek]

thx to everybody. I have a full folder of links, bookmarks, and forum posts in my browser.

The whole archeology discussion is truly interesting. Future scientist would be really confused why in the desert of highly developed industrialized country there was a refuge camp and how it managed to survive without water and other supplies :)