Beer Archaeologist

I jump on and off FCP when I can, so this very well may have been already posted. If not here it is; finally some worthwhile archaeology. ~mft

Pepe's Boyz Enjoy an Artistic Outing

Eurabia is gonna have a Smashing good time.
[REGURGE]

Miller Time for us Hoarders of the Past

exegesis on One Way to End a Civilization

Remembrance of Things Past

Unlike the previous post, this one is interesting and a little sobering. This was such a short time ago, and yet is more ancient than Mecca.
Judging by most of the dreams of men, the world is insane.

Ponce, Puerto Rico: Archaeological discussions over spiced rum and ice...

Arawak and Carib pre- and post-Columbian tribes were notorious for their aggression. On the Salt River of St. Croix, circa 1494, one of Columbus' naval expeditions up that river endured a barrage of poison darts and arrows. One can't really fault the Arawaks or Caribs, though: those Euros smelled like a year of body-oder and bad perfume.

Here's what archaeologists recently located ("Discover" is a bit misguided: the damn tablets were always there... someone just needed to move the dirt in the right direction):

Archaeologists also uncovered several graves with bodies buried face-down with the legs bent at the knees -- a style never seen before in the region.

C'mon people, think a little! Knees bent. Face down. A conversation with an archaeological colleague in the office regarding this bent knee, face down burial went something like this:

Archaeological Colleague: "Maybe they were buried that way to symbolize praying?...."

MFT Response: "Knees bent? Face down? This is Arawak/Carib territory, ancilliary tribes of those famous Meso-American religious killers, Aztec, Incas, and otherwise. I'll bet those that were buried were praying, but it may have been right before they were sliced open with fancy obsidian blades. Yeah, they were praying all right..."

mft's Archaeological Office (at least last week)

Not all that surprising, we located two prehistoric sites along this stretch of Park River in northeastern North Dakota. Our tribal liaison spotted an eagle circling above one day during the dig. Hopefully the Canadian oil company we're subcontracting this work for can excercise as much damage control as possible around this area when they put in the 30" diameter pipeline. It sounds like they will.

Behind Pepe's Bad News

"Why didn't those secularists, all these years, for the past half-century, work and work and work like madmen to change the minds of men, to continue the work of Ataturk, to substitute not a crude cult of "the Turk" and the "Sun People" and Ataturk as the Great Man, but to steadily create a class of Western men, encouraging skepticism and a spirit of criticism and self-criticism, that could exist with a reasonable patriotism?"
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" Why not, in other words, blame Islam-maddened Turks and Kurds, and not "Turks and Kurds"? That is, why not blame Islam for what happened, since it is clearly to blame?"
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" And why did secular Turks not look closely at the example of Iran, where secular, leftist Iranians were snookered into helping overthrow the Shah by Khomeini and the True Believers, and then destroyed? (Yes, the Shah was corrupt and vainglorious, but compared to what followed, he and his court, those hoveydas and tabatabais, look better every day.) It will always be that way. The Muslims will use, as they are now using some among the secularists, to deplore the army, to deplore the laws that the threat of Islam makes necessary. And those secularists, not having studied carefully the example of Iran, fall for it "

Perhaps because Versaille is ruled by complete idiots.

Applied Archaeology has riches worthy of Valhalla

Nations Into Dust, Dust Into Imperial Clay

And Islam will shape that clay

Archaic Survey on the High Plains

It's probable that AI and Pepe are off doing research and writing during their summer hours, yes? JJ is, naturally, researching Italia and impala herds. I think AA is making trips up and down the coast of the Pac-NW (at least the last I heard). Here's a couple pics of mft doing a bit of archaeological survey and cultural resource inventory (see Section 106 of Public Law 102-575) on the high Plains.

That shiny or satin sheen stuff you see in the middle photo is either petrified wood or Knife River Flint. The last time it was touched was likely by the AmerIndian who created it many, many, many years ago.

Equally important: great steaks in the evening, especially when out doing the survey in cattle country. All the better with icy-cold beer, too.

That's all. Enjoy the pics.

~mft