LOL!!! Alex...since when have you taken an interest in what happens
in Iowa?
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:37:05 -0500, "A. Cain" <noemail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"I P Seldom" <BashfulBladder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Horace Brownbag? wrote:
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>> > I ran across this story.....
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>> > http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/12/artifacts040112
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>> > 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>
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>> > 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.
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>Yet one day later you spam the **** out of Usenet by advertising a
website
>over 70 times in at least five different newsgroups, you hypocrite.
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>> 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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