I got my own dinosaur.

In somewhat related news, I was recently placed as a charter board member of a regional Archeological Institute. More for my historical knowledge of the region, than for my archeological expertise, although I have worked a screed with our primary archeologist.

I put the archeologist on a 1756 church site that I had visited years ago. They called while in the field, having trouble finding it. I walked them to it over the phone. They are working the site now, since the January phone call. No dinosaurs, but a lot of Paleo Indian artifacts in addition to the colonial artifacts. Just test holes for the most part, but have found more gravestones (sunken/silted over). Site is riverfront on a timber tract. River plain/swamp is not conducive for fossilized remains.

A fellow board member is working a dig in Belize in their winter months. He's doing cutting edge work on identifying types of animals that were killed by arrow/spear by analyzing blood residue. Even if thousands of years old. They identified a mastodon kill in my county in South Carolina. The residue was a match to modern elephants. They have sabre tooth cats, camels, giant beavers (bigger than a grizzly bear, horses (extinct natives before European horses), and many others. Again these were killed by humans in America, probably in the 13,000 to 20,000 years ago range.
 
RuffledFeathers said:
In somewhat related news, I was recently placed as a charter board member of a regional Archeological Institute. More for my historical knowledge of the region, than for my archeological expertise, although I have worked a screed with our primary archeologist.

I put the archeologist on a 1756 church site that I had visited years ago. They called while in the field, having trouble finding it. I walked them to it over the phone. They are working the site now, since the January phone call. No dinosaurs, but a lot of Paleo Indian artifacts in addition to the colonial artifacts. Just test holes for the most part, but have found more gravestones (sunken/silted over). Site is riverfront on a timber tract. River plain/swamp is not conducive for fossilized remains.

A fellow board member is working a dig in Belize in their winter months. He's doing cutting edge work on identifying types of animals that were killed by arrow/spear by analyzing blood residue. Even if thousands of years old. They identified a mastodon kill in my county in South Carolina. The residue was a match to modern elephants. They have sabre tooth cats, camels, giant beavers (bigger than a grizzly bear, horses (extinct natives before European horses), and many others. Again these were killed by humans in America, probably in the 13,000 to 20,000 years ago range.
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Now that's cool. I love that stuff.
 
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