tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post4697368706890222294..comments2023-10-25T02:14:11.431-07:00Comments on Living Vicuriously, aka Pasadena Daily Photo, has moved.: Let's Get ArchaeologicalPetrea Burchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-33403590933607034892011-10-30T00:39:30.566-07:002011-10-30T00:39:30.566-07:00What Irina says is all too often true.What Irina says is all too often true.Dinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461925401870320466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-29240584622445469482011-10-25T10:39:59.362-07:002011-10-25T10:39:59.362-07:00Irina, just this morning I read a brief story abou...Irina, just this morning I read a brief story about Vladimir Putin "discovering" ancient amphorae on a recent dive. It seemed a contrived discovery, the type of thing politicians do all over the world. Perhaps with each discovery we take three steps forward and two steps back. Progress could be so much faster if humanity were an honest race. But if some of us are honest it's progress, nonetheless.Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-48391206521888689532011-10-25T09:15:54.300-07:002011-10-25T09:15:54.300-07:00Archeology is illusion. (I hope Dina does not hear...Archeology is illusion. (I hope Dina does not hear). We find, we make our conclusions, we keep rarities, but we never make lessons from the past. And ignorance wins so often.irinapictureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850627821782513051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-9289618414673271572011-10-23T22:09:16.678-07:002011-10-23T22:09:16.678-07:00That sounds like my kind of book, Ms. M. Thanks fo...That sounds like my kind of book, Ms. M. Thanks for the suggestion.Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-18922776880833209542011-10-23T21:57:40.209-07:002011-10-23T21:57:40.209-07:00Archaeology is fascinating stuff! I've visited...Archaeology is fascinating stuff! I've visited Anasazi ruins in New Mexico. I also recently read a book about early women archaeologists: "Ladies of the Field: Early women archaeologists and their search for adventure" by Amanda Adams.Ms Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07960193596384417988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-85609417218514758212011-10-22T22:53:57.627-07:002011-10-22T22:53:57.627-07:00That sounds interesting, Steven. Have it checked o...That sounds interesting, Steven. Have it checked out! Let us know what you find out.Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-38213311447688322542011-10-22T20:12:44.192-07:002011-10-22T20:12:44.192-07:00Now there is someting that I could sink my teeth i...Now there is someting that I could sink my teeth into. This is a great idea and one only has to go to one's backyard to search. Even I have found what looks to be an ancient hammer-like stone object on my property.Stevennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-72377197993044568592011-10-22T17:10:36.752-07:002011-10-22T17:10:36.752-07:00Don't you worry, Dive, this bridge is slated t...Don't you worry, Dive, this bridge is slated to be rebuilt and refurbished soon. It's really very pretty, but you're not the first person to point out the problem and, just to top that off, it turns out it spans a fault line.Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-40319537265995555772011-10-22T11:48:48.221-07:002011-10-22T11:48:48.221-07:00Many thanks to Bellis for identifying the bridge. ...Many thanks to Bellis for identifying the bridge. Boy howdy, as an architect I'd have thrown the concrete mixers off site. I'm amazed the thing is still standing, though it's not going to be for much longer with aggregate like that in it. Concrete can be beautiful (really) and long lasting (look at the Roman stuff still standing), but whoever built La Loma bridge saved (made) an awful lot of money by building cheap and nasty. Petrea, if you don't mind I'm going to show that photo round at the office on Monday and count the swearwords.<br />Oh, and by the way, hoorah for archæology! I'll be out at the local Roman dig sometime this winter with my camera and I'll post the results.divehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12938980502783421961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-78217644371818976702011-10-22T09:35:09.550-07:002011-10-22T09:35:09.550-07:00I love archaeology. But it's much more interes...I love archaeology. But it's much more interesting in Europe than California, of course. Where else would you find a 6,000 year old spearhead in an English field? Or Etruscan pottery fragments in Tuscany? Now I have to content myself with more recent finds, but they can be exciting as well. The top of Echo mountain has bits of molten glass and pottery from a hotel fire in the 1930s, and who'd have thought the 1913 La Loma bridge in the photo was made of rubble and mortar?Bellishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10168550139269893109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-39994386923532606162011-10-22T07:53:51.231-07:002011-10-22T07:53:51.231-07:00And Julie, I often wonder the same thing--especial...And Julie, I often wonder the same thing--especially of a particularly boring of ugly building. What will they think? (If it doesn't disintegrate into nothing, that is.)Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-26603125439768290172011-10-22T07:52:31.195-07:002011-10-22T07:52:31.195-07:00Great stuff! Archaeology can be very old (Julie...Great stuff! Archaeology can be very old (Julie's example) or very recent (I read an article in Archaeology magazine about tracing the trails of illegals crossing the Mexican border). I love it all, I do.<br /><br />Dina, you know what I'm talking about. Dina works on digs in Israel and often talks about her fascinating discoveries on her blog.Petrea Burchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13043950465171821852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-40175410598063804382011-10-22T05:38:50.197-07:002011-10-22T05:38:50.197-07:00Here's another archeological quest from compar...Here's another archeological quest from comparatively recent times - 1856. The story of the sinking of the steamboat Arabia and the eventual location of her remains in a cornfield.<br /><br />http://steamboats.com/museum/arabia.html<br /><br />And her museum in Kansas City -<br />www.1856.comSpeedwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16294062505751359294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-71113033440511875362011-10-22T02:09:27.492-07:002011-10-22T02:09:27.492-07:00I often wonder what people of the future will be s...I often wonder what people of the future will be saying about today's structures, particularly buildings and monuments in places like DC (assuming the world has another few thousand years left in it).<br /><br />New Mexico has a lot of Native American ruins that I would love to visit one day. I'll eventually have to set aside a weekend for that. <br /><br />Have a great National Archaeology Day!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15489360250617353644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067046564433930606.post-14903776392712969902011-10-22T00:15:16.572-07:002011-10-22T00:15:16.572-07:00What a great illustration to prove your point. H...What a great illustration to prove your point. Happy first National Archaeology Day!Dinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461925401870320466noreply@blogger.com