Drones provide striking evidence of the permanent damage that the asshats at Greenpeace did to the Nazca lines

Last week as part of a calculated publicity stunt Greenpeace defaced the cultural landscape surrounding one of the best preserved examples of the Nazca lines. Drone footage just released (link below) shows how significant the damage the caused is and how permanently visible it is.

As my buddy Jim say's "Seriously, who still holds on to Clovis first anymore?"

The evidence for Native American populations migrating to the America's prior to 13,000B.C. is irrefutable, but there is still much left to be discovered. 

50 year old crucible provide further evidence of Norse presence in the Arctic

A stone vessel discovered over 50 years ago has been identified by Dr. Patricia Sutherland as further evidence of a Viking or Medieval Norse presence in Arctic Canada during the centuries around 1000 A.D.

As reported in Geoarchaeology the artifact was excavated 50 years ago from a site on Baffin Island. It was recently identified as a crucible that would have been used for melting bronze for use in ornaments or small items. This find further bolsters the evidence for the Norse traveling and establishing way points to trade for arctic trade goods such as walrus ivory and soft pelts that were in high demand in northern Europe.  

Your salary vs Warren Buffet's

We all know Archaeologists do not earn much, but this quick form will make what you earn seem a lot more equal to your engineer cousin when you are both compared to Warren Buffet

http://pennystocks.la/warren-buffett/index.html

Click on the image to open the interactive version. (Source: http://pennystocks.la).

This is going to be a great story to watch unfold.  The cigar sized box was buried in 1795 by Gov. Samuel Adams, patriot Paul Revere, and William Scollay, a militia officer during the Revolution at the cornerstone of the capital that was then finished in 1798. The box is currently being examined and imaged prior to being opened.

You can read more here:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/11/boston-another-time-capsule-unearthed/20272595/

http://www.thecapitalwide.com/1635/1975s-time-capsule-unearthed/

A timeless Christmas class to enjoy!

Please sign the Whitehouse.gov petition to stop the Native American Land Grab

In the recent National Defense Authorization Bill H.R. 4355 was a rider granting a legislative land swap near Superior, Ariz., for the benefit of a foreign company Rio Tinto PLC who seek to mine copper.  When land swaps do occur, according to a 2010 policy brief by the University of Montana they occur through administrative channels.  This land swap though is being included as a rider on the National Defense Authorization Act for 2015 which is guaranteed to pass which then subverts the normal administrative process for authorizing a land swap.  The gist of the land swap is that Resolution Copper -- a Rio Tinto venture with a foreign company BHP Billiton Ltd. -- would trade more than 2,000 acres of federal land in return for more than 5,000 acres of company land.  It is an important detail to note that many article state the land is being "given" to the corporation, where it is technically a land swap.  The use of the word "give" instead of "trade" or "swap" is an important nuance that people need to be careful of in discussing this if they want to present the issue in a balanced perspective.