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…
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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…
Dinosaur Bone Hunting
By Mary Fairchild2015, New Castle, Wyoming. When dinosaurs walked the earth, a vast inland sea had covered the area from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, our families can walk the earth and uncover the very paths of the dinosaurs through trips with Dr. Steve Nicklas of Paleo Prospectors. For the past several years…
Nestled Deep in Wisconsin’s Woods: A Rustic Wedding at Mirror Lake State Park
By Mary Fairchild The bride with her flower girls; Mirror Lake State Park Amphitheater, 10/25/14. Picture by John Nicholls. An outdoor wedding in the woods can be an incredible experience especially in the fall as the cooler days and cooler nights begin to open and reveal more and more of the landscape. The playfulness of crisp falling…
Sea Kayaking Narragansett Bay: Native American Footpaths and Soul Freedom
By Mary Fairchild (Mfairlady.com) Audubon Society George B. Parker Woodland, Coventry, Rhode Island. “Williams(Roger), lacking the resources… got about by canoe, sometimes likely with a sail rigged…Canoeing, even in protected bays meant confronting sometimes breaking surf and routinely strong currents, heavy swells, whitecaps, and wind; occasional exposure to open ocean increased the danger exponentially.” (4; Barry, p….
Pompeii and Cosmology: Preserved Ancient Rites and Recent Revivals
By Mary Fairchild Pompeii is located south of Italy. The area was originally colonized by the Greeks in the 8th century, and had been inhabited continuously since it was buried by ash from a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. Mt. Vesuvius was a volcano nearby that was thought to be dormant. Although it erupted unexpectedly,…