By Mary Fairchild My daughter exploring petroglyphs near Mesa, Arizona; 5/2014. I am fortunate to be able to visit Arizona annually where I find time to hike and trail run. Petroglyphs and pictograms are abundant in the Southwest (pictured above) and I have found them to be an added treasure to my time there. Naturally, when our local rock…
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Archaeology/Genealogy
Genealogy Fergen Family of the Black Forest : Reichstag, Germany, Chicago: The Great Depression and the city life of Chicago. Although resources were strained, the immigrant’s lives were better in America than in the countries from which they had come. As they settled in the cities they formed ethnic neighborhoods with others from their native land. …
Surfing Baja’s Pacific Coast
By Mary Fairchild Although it is possible to ride storm surf, tidal bores, and swell, what provides us with ‘the finest waves to ride’ is swell arriving on a suitable beach. Nigel Foster (1) During the first week of April, I was fortunate to be a part of Gini Callahan’s first sea kayak surf camp…
Exploring the Great Basin: Anza-Borrego Desert, Calico Early Man Site, to Boarding the Coral Pink Sand Dunes
By Mary Fairchild Anza-Borrego Desert The Great Basin stretches from southern Idaho to Southern California which includes all, or portions, of Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. Its southwestern parts are now known as the Mojave and Colorado Deserts of Southern California. In this large, generally dry, mountain-studded region of the West the rivers do not flow to the sea…
Owsley’s Kennewick Man Research May be Trumped by DNA Tests Similar to Anzick Child
By Mary Fairchild Many Native-Americans do not believe that archaeologists are capable of interpreting and preserving their past. Last spring, Smithsonian’s curator Douglas Owsley publicly told the tribes that the Kennewick Man was not Native American, but this year, DNA analysis in Denmark appears to be proving Owsley’s research team was wrong. Both Indians and Anthropologists and ..Archaeologists… offer the reader information on…
Douglas Owsley Chooses to Omit Peer-Review on Kennewick Man Research
By Mary Fairchild (updated 11/15) Marmes Rockshelter Site, not far from the Kennewick Site. “..only Owsley’s team had been allowed to study the bones(Kennewick Man)…There has been an absence of peer-reviewed articles published when standard procedure is for scientists to submit articles to scholarly journals, have other experts review the articles…” Peter Lape, Burke Museum…