So, on Friday I leave for Jamaica... :pimp:
Going to Negril for a week for some fun in the sun and relaxation. I will eat conch fritters and drink Red Stripe for all of you.
Oooooh I can't wait to catch up on some reading in a tropical location!
Boy did I just hit a jackpot...
Thanks to the Amazon.com marketplace I was able to pick up:
Encounters And Transformations: The Archaeology of Iberia in Transition (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology) for $15; which new runs $130.
The jackpot is not really in regards to acquiring a book that is normally out of my price range but what is in it. I have to admit I was expecting yet another book written from a Judeo-Centric view that Iberia wasn't squat or worth studying until the peri
I have two lovely plants (umbrella plant and some other tropical doodad) that are spending the summer outside so they can grow nice and big and strong.
Problem is that my resident squirrels don't seem to understand that there are no buried acorns in them!
Lately I've come home almost every other day to find the potting soil ravaged; my poor little plant's roots naked and exposed.
Phase 1 for thwarting their barbaric little advances is a nice layer of cayane pepper on the soil. But i
So, I had a great time in Jamaica. Fabulous.
Getting there and back was an absolute nightmare as I had to end up renting a car to Ft. Lauderdale (from Atlanta = +9 hours) to be able to catch my flight and again on the return. That was not in the plan. Especially monetarily...
I came back this week to a flooded basement and a missing cat (luckily not for long) and a week long Advanced Engineering refresher that was really just a misuse of my time. Furthermore I am having to host a 30th Bi
Oh Lord Apollon Parnopios!
What have I done my Lord to engage your wrath!
First poor Sufflavus is taken in vicious sacrifice and now a pestilence enshrouds my home that rivals the very breath of Typhon!
At every turn amongst my walls the putrescent emanation of death confronts me!
Not a room is free of the abhorrent presence of those macabre agents of decomposing flesh,
Those corpulent flying factotums of filth!
Oh Lord Apollon Parnopios!
What wretched effrontery ha
My back yard is swarming with varmints as has been previously mentioned. However, since my neighbor the cat lady has been away during some construction on her house, her out door kitties have also been absent
Before I conclude the narrative of my journey to Hades to retrieve Gaius, I have to take a moment to share the reason I have been a bit scare this week.
I went to the mountains for my sister
Most of what I read and most of the new books I purchase is still focused on my long term primary project (novel...).
The secondary, somewhat big project right now would have to be my Ligurian article that's been in the hopper for months. Though it's mostly complete I've put it on the backburner. I became concerned with the simple fact that there is not much out there on the Ligurians (especially online) and I know that once it's published it will mostly likely draw those odd few people (li
I have come to realize something during my recent vacation that I should have known or sensed all along... What with my natural aptitude at sailing and swimming, my love for the sea, my providential naval service & induction as a 'Shellback' (servant of Neptune), my choice of Nauclerus as a title here at UNRV, etc...
My run of bad luck lately may indeed be because I was forsaking the signals that I was perhaps all along a beloved son of Poseidon and have not been honoring Patros Genethli
So it seems our intrepid Atlantic traders of the Bronze Age weren't satisfied with Iberia as the southern trade terminus; they ventured into the mid-Mediterranean...
There was a metal-centric trade network where (what I'll call) proto-Lusitanian/Tartessian traders linked up with Cypriot merchants through Nuragic-Sardinian intermediaries. Their Iberian jumping off point was where one might expect it; trading towns established on the coastal rivers closest to Pityusae & the Balearics.
I can never force my self to post the pictures in reverse order.
So If you want to follow the progression of the day you must start on page three and work your way forward. Hope you all enjoy the pictures.
Well the moment of truth is at hand. I'm meeting the Cultural Survey Consultant and the Chesterfield County Archaeologist at the site next Tuesday the 31st.
But the consultant's professional pride seems to be on shaky ground, he & his client are a little prickly:
Sean, we are arranging for a meeting up at the site on 31 January 2006, which is next Tuesday. Can you make it then? Would you be able to bring the artifacts along? Also, our client asks how you came to know that developm
The Mercurius mosaic had run it's course. Though I still really like my first avatar I used here; the Ulysses (Odysseus) cameo, I needed a change.
That being said, I think I've found a keeper with my new one. Given the motif (which I hope all will recognize...) coupled with the meaning of my forum name I find its ironic humor quite appropriate.
On a different note, I'm reading Lionel Casson's book Travel in the Ancient World currently and it is superb. I will submit a lengthy review to t
So the other weekend I (as well as some other folks) went up to Black Mountain, NC to visit my sister. We spent most of Saturday doing some Christmas shopping around the town shops.
In one of the antique shops we went into, there was a little box of stuff on the front counter that I usually don't bother to look at in a store: 'Arrowheads'
I have quite a few, but they have all been found by me or in a few cases my great uncle. I've never really felt driven to pick through a box and pay m
So this past Saturday we had a baby shower for my sister and it was a wonderful occasion because we had all siblings together (me, my older brother & his family, & my 2 sisters); which won
Recieved this from Dr. Whyte just now:
Dear Sean:
I would be happy to send a letter to Jon Leader. The pictures you sent are of artifacts dating (mostly) to the mid-Holocene (Middle Archaic, Morrow Mountain points). I must have seen others if I said Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene. What kind of landform is the site on? Has it been plowed? If so, do you think there may be preserved parts of the site below the plow zone? What is the estimated site size? These things may halp me argue the c
Amazingly enough, Dr. Leader replied yesterday afternoon after I had left my office:
** High Priority **
Hi Sean,
Please write me a formal letter outlining every bit of information you have concerning the archaeological resources on site. Make sure that you include the total number and forms of artifacts collected from the property. Photographs would not hurt. Understand that a single point out of context will not cut it. Please contact Dr. Whyte to write a letter of support for the
Yesterday I posted an image in the Gallery of an Paleo-Indian spear point I found in South Carolina in 1991. Unfortunately during the Holidays I have come to learn that a portion of the land where I found that and other artifacts is in grave danger...
I will let this e-mail I just sent to the Director of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology explian:
Dear Dr. Leader,
I am writing to you and the SCIAA in general with an urgent plea for help.
There is an enda
So, it has now been almost 24 hours that the Perseus-Tufts database has been corrupted and non-functional.
I am like a diabetic without insulin, a manic-depressive without lithium, a colapsed lung patient without a respirator... You get the drift.
I continue to promise myself that if I ever have enough cash laying around to become philanthropic; Perseus Tufts will get it.
While in communion with Hermes Diaktoros during the recent consummation of a vow, I have come to learn from the blessed conductor that a recent soul under his charge was none other than our own esteemed Neapolitain: Don Tomasso! :stretcher:
But alas! His poor wretched shade is stuck at the Plutoneum with no coin on his tongue! :nopity:
I am gathering up my gear hoping Persephone sends welcome, and I will be off to retrieve the ill prepaired Da
