my girlfriend works as an archeologist
finds alot of bottle fragments, knapping stones, miniballs, old coins, etc.
finds alot of bottle fragments, knapping stones, miniballs, old coins, etc.
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Unusual finds while digging/working on job sites
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One time my crew dug up a coil of copper cable with 10,800 volts runnin through it. It was well outside the locate marks.
I learned two lessons that day:
1. when an underground transmission cable is too long, some linemen will just dig a hole next to the pole, coil up the extra cable, and bury it in the hole, and the coils of extra cable can be well outside the locate marks.
2. If you trip a circuit breaker on a big transmission line, the circuit breaker will reset (or be reset) after a minute or two, which will cause another very nasty flash and boom.
I learned two lessons that day:
1. when an underground transmission cable is too long, some linemen will just dig a hole next to the pole, coil up the extra cable, and bury it in the hole, and the coils of extra cable can be well outside the locate marks.
2. If you trip a circuit breaker on a big transmission line, the circuit breaker will reset (or be reset) after a minute or two, which will cause another very nasty flash and boom.
During college I took a paleontology class. A local brought in some teeth he found in a cave while looking for civil war artifacts. The cave had been mined for salt Peter during the early years of the civil war. The teeth turned out to be from a giant ground sloth, thus I got in on the following excavation. All carbon dating returned 12 to 14.000 bp. Finds included; giant armadillo, an extinct species of peccary, an extinct species of beaver, jaguar, elk, caribou, moose, four extinct species of rodents. Also found a few Indian artifacts.
I became good friends with the fellow that first found the teeth. He had been an avid relic, Indian artifact hunter/collector for decades. Going in his house was like walking into the Smithsonian. We went on many metal detectoring trips, walked a lot of plowed fields, and frequently visited the spot where the second coca cola bottling plant was built and then demolished in the 50's and pushed into the oostanaula river. Most of the better bottles I found have been gone for years to pay bills, the Indian artifacts have mostly disappeared for kids and grandkids science projects.
I became good friends with the fellow that first found the teeth. He had been an avid relic, Indian artifact hunter/collector for decades. Going in his house was like walking into the Smithsonian. We went on many metal detectoring trips, walked a lot of plowed fields, and frequently visited the spot where the second coca cola bottling plant was built and then demolished in the 50's and pushed into the oostanaula river. Most of the better bottles I found have been gone for years to pay bills, the Indian artifacts have mostly disappeared for kids and grandkids science projects.
Oh I've seen that happen before. Scary as hell. The backhoe operator needed a new pair of pants. I thought I was about to see somebody die when I saw that flash.
Atlanta watershed dug up some Civil war articles near Ptree Battle and donated to museum.
General comments....
I went to college in IL with a black guy from Atlanta. This was 1966-1970. He wanted to be a dentist and was a good student, but he couldn't get into Ga Tech due to race, so he came up to IL, got a degree, went to dental school, set up his practice in the Chicago area and was successful.
I suspect, but don't know, that 3 bathrooms were common, white men, white women and "colored".
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My dad and his step-brother had big collections of native American artifacts, or as he called them "Indian rocks". He said the best time to find them was in the spring after fields were plowed, followed by a rain, would wash the dirt away and expose the rocks.
My uncle had an "Indian" skull, which as a kid I thought was cool as hell, now I realize the insensitivity of "owning" human remains.
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A few years ago, some guy up in Virginia found a Civil War cannon ball, got out his trusty Black & Decker drill and started drilling into it for some odd reason. It blew up on his driveway, killing him dead right there. I bet it had black powder in it. Darwinism at its purest, finest.
I went to college in IL with a black guy from Atlanta. This was 1966-1970. He wanted to be a dentist and was a good student, but he couldn't get into Ga Tech due to race, so he came up to IL, got a degree, went to dental school, set up his practice in the Chicago area and was successful.
I suspect, but don't know, that 3 bathrooms were common, white men, white women and "colored".
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My dad and his step-brother had big collections of native American artifacts, or as he called them "Indian rocks". He said the best time to find them was in the spring after fields were plowed, followed by a rain, would wash the dirt away and expose the rocks.
My uncle had an "Indian" skull, which as a kid I thought was cool as hell, now I realize the insensitivity of "owning" human remains.
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A few years ago, some guy up in Virginia found a Civil War cannon ball, got out his trusty Black & Decker drill and started drilling into it for some odd reason. It blew up on his driveway, killing him dead right there. I bet it had black powder in it. Darwinism at its purest, finest.
Still have it ?
Does she mainly work here in Ga, or elsewhere?
