"I P Seldom" <BashfulBladder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Horace Brownbag? wrote:
>
> > I ran across this story.....
> >
> > http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/12/artifacts040112
> >
> > The ice up north is melting faster than it's being created, and long
> > lost, or disgarded remnants from the lands original inhabitants.
> >
> > ...kind of a primetime to conduct this gathering as later maybe too
> > late.
> >
> > Anyway,...
> >
> > I found this little bit interesting.
> >
> >
> >
> > <quote>
> >
> > Yukon researcher Greg Hare keeps one of the last field season's most
> > fragile treasures – an ornately sewn, small leather bag – in a small
> > plastic tub. It was found frozen in a bed of rocks and muck, below one
> > of the high mountain ice patches.
> >
> > "To find worked leather, you know it's very rare to find something
> > like this in Canadian archaeology," he says. "We just got the radio
> > carbon dates back and it's 1,400 years old."
> >
> > <end of quote>
> >
> >
> > It looked like a wadded up wet brown paper bag, but when this quy
> > pointed out the examples I began to appreciate the quality and care
> > that must have gone into the creation of this what must have been a
> > prized possession in those days. It must have been a shame to loose
> > it. Archeologically, I guess, it was a great find. A snapshot in
> > the life of and early North American resident, as it had remained
> > undisturbed since the day it was ostensibly lost.
> >
> > Now, I was just wondering...if this bag belonged to a guy living in a
> > whole different environment, and having a wholly differnent life, did
> > he walk around scratching his head saying, "Damn, where in the helllll
> > did I put my bag?...I know it's gotta be here....somewhere."
>
> Okay, you posted this and then replied to it three times, and you didn't
> correct your typo.
Yet one day later you spam the fuck out of Usenet by advertising a website
over 70 times in at least five different newsgroups, you hypocrite.
> But I digress.
> I would be willing to bet he did, indeed, wander around looking for the
> aforementioned bag.
> Funny post.
> Rusty
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