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Offline Dane

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Archaic Shelter, Tools, Bones
« on: February 24, 2010, 12:03:11 pm »
My wife is very cool, in that she didnt mind my going off and tramping around a rock shelter this past Valentine's Day. The "Rock House" is located near Ware, Massachusetts, and worth visiting. After that, my buddy and I took some time to visit the Amherst College museum of natural history. The place is great, free, and they have stuff worth multiple visits. To me, the high point was the small collection of ancient stone tools they have on display. The Neanderthal tools average about 4" tall. I didn't even ask if I could borrow them, lol.

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Re: Archaic Shelter, Tools, Bones
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2010, 12:05:53 pm »
More shots. The teeth are mastadon / mammoth teeth.

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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2010, 12:07:00 pm »
Last shots. Pardon me if I repeated any.

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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2010, 12:08:59 pm »
wow that looks like a great way to spend a weekend!   :)
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2010, 12:12:08 pm »
It is a really fine little museum. They have some paintings and dioramas showing this area, the Connecticut River Valley, as it appeared during the Jurasic period. Very arid and tropical, which would be nice right now. They also have a great little map of what the area looked like during the last ice age, when Lake Hitchcock existed. Hard to iimagine my lttle town under all that ice.

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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2010, 01:09:51 pm »
cant believe we hunted mammoths.  those things are huge!
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Re: Archaic Shelter, Tools, Bones
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2010, 01:13:23 pm »
Looks like a great place to visit, Dane. That Levallois flake is cool. I'd like to see all those skeletons in person, and I bet you could make a helluva flintknapping billet out of one of those megaceros antlers. :)
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Re: Archaic Shelter, Tools, Bones
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2010, 08:06:35 pm »
awesome dane, im gonna hafta stop up there when i swing through. that rock house looks like the leathermans caves we have in thomaston, ct. next time you come down i'll show you where they are .
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« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2010, 01:08:40 am »
How much are mammoth/mastadon teeth worth?  just wondering because my grandfather's family has a few from when they dredged out their sandpits in the 60's....if anyone knows let me know
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2010, 07:51:02 pm »

     Great pictures! :o  Great Wife! :o......I assume you left her with an ample supply of chocolate, wine, and Harlequin romance novels ?...... ;D  Ok, so about that Soap Stone Quarry 8)......and those spooks...... :o

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Re: Archaic Shelter, Tools, Bones
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2010, 04:46:30 am »
I have a Celtic holy ground nearby named Cat Stones; your pictures of these shelter rocks very much reminds me of those!
Great museum pictures, too!
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Offline Dane

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Re: Archaic Shelter, Tools, Bones
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2010, 06:26:09 am »
The soapstone quarry will happen again sometime this spring. If the spooks allow it, lol.

My wife isn't much for romance type stuff, and we stopped giving each other gifts for any holiday years ago, including our birthdays.

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Quote from: stickbender on February 27, 2010, 07:51:02 pm

     Great pictures! :o  Great Wife! :o......I assume you left her with an ample supply of chocolate, wine, and Harlequin romance novels ?...... ;D  Ok, so about that Soap Stone Quarry 8)......and those spooks...... :o

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Re: Archaic Shelter, Tools, Bones
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2010, 06:29:22 am »
That would be great, Jamie. I plan to come to the NEPSG again this year.

Frank, thanks. Funny how sites like these are often so similar. Maybe something about how cultures share certain things across the world.

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Offline stickbender

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« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2010, 09:12:31 pm »

     Dane, Frank, it is that Spook thing, I'm telling ya! ;) ::)  That's how they had similar stuff! ::)  Oooooowheeeeoooo, use the rocks for shelter old toothless one.....Ooooowheeeooooo...... ;D  Hmpf, wind crazy, me build cracker style, with walk out basement., maybe ranch style...... 8)


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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2010, 09:55:15 pm »
Wayne, are you a member of the sarcastic tribe that dwells by the big river? :)

I kind of meant a lot of other things, like the technologies that traveled from continent to contient, bows for instance, atlatls, etc. Styles of dress, styles of art, all that good stuff. Trade goods and spread of ideas before these here computers and telephones and stuff. Of course, a cave is a cave is a cave. Ooga booga.

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