Hello.... always interested in the past and the preservation of history...

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Hello everyone!  I just joined this group, so want to say hi!  I am a mom of three teens, and soon to be a grandma (my oldest boy.24 yrs old is dad to be!) for the first time.  I have a degree in American Indian Studies, so love to study and learn about the past.  I live in Southern California near San Diego.  I look forward to talking with all of you!

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Hi! My name is Mariangela. I' m currently studying archaeology and philosophy here in Italy. I'm very interested in greek art and architecture. I will be happy to share this interest with you all.

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Hello my name is Louise.

I'm a student archaeologist, ive done spent 3 years studying G.C.S.E (which no longer exist as of 2007 ), and As, and A2 Archaeology, hopfully i will study Arch at Reading university this september.

I am also a member of The Basingstoke Archaeological and Historical Society, and through them i will be attending the summer field school this summer at Silchester to take part in the yearly excavations as part of my studies.

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I'm an archaeologist that is interested in collaborative archaeology with communities to help them protect and preserve their heritage.  I currently serve as a cultural resource manager for the Texas Army National Guard.  I never thought I would end up working for the military after all my years spent working in the west and the Arctic, but I'm glad I have.  It has been a challenge but it has also been very rewarding.

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I'm new here...and just dropping a hello to all.  I'm a librarian with a life-long interest in archaeology.  Presently, that interest has led me towards working on establishing specialized library services in a Albania, focusing on the Ottoman empire.  Other interests include Pre-Hispanic/PreColumbian Latin American archaeology, and the Crusades (particularly the 4th).  Thanks for this group...and I look forward to following posts!

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Hi, Im Caitlin.  College student by trade i'm majoring in Wildlife Conservation, but I've always had a special place in my heart for archeology ever since I was little.  At one point I seriously considered trying to major in it.   

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Greetings everyone. My name is Kerry and I live in Michigan. I am brand new to Care2 Network so please forgive me if I lag in responses or introductions. I am very excited and thank you for allowing me in this group. I L O V E archaeology and hope to save enough to go on a dig one day. It is one of many goals. I look forward to reading all this wonderful material and hope that I can contribute in some way.

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Kerry

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Thanks Maria for the sep. StKilda thread

Hi all

I today opened a photo album especially for St Kilda and uploaded 4 pages of pictures.  There will be more to come

The direct link to my public album St Kilda pages is

http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/47/417791465/02_1_Europe_British_Isles_St_Kilda__Outer_Hebrides_/

Cheers/Slane lhiats

Gari the

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My field of study is History of Art, and I am extremely interested in Arcaeology, ancient culture, architecture and religious study. I am sure I will enjoy being a part of this group.

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Sorry about the pics that didn't show up.  They are mostly at
http://www.guideliner.co.uk/St%20Kilda.htm which is well worth a visit.

  Back of the KGB

Hirta (St Kilda) village with island of Dun in background

"The Street"  Hirta Village houses re-constructed
for Trust workers

 Search for St Brianan's Chapel

  The Lovers' Stone
To become eligible young men, boys had to stand on the edge whilst holding one foot.  Those who fell down were not eligible

  Boreray
Boreray with Stacs Lee and Armin (Gannet Isles)

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  Kleits on St Kilda

Location St Kilda Archipelago
http://www.great-britain.co.uk/world-heritage/st-kilda/st-kilda-map.jpg

Divers will want to look at http://www.bsactravelclub.co.uk/reports/stkilda3.htm

The StKilda group homepage is at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StKilda/

  The lover's Stone
The highest cliffs in the British Isles
GL_LoverStone_700ft_guideliner.co.ukStKilda.htm

Here on the Mullagh was where we looked for the chapel

The house ruins below are where the islanders lived until 1930 when they left due to illnesses.  Quite an exciting sotry at the group and also at the links indicated there

  The Puff Inn
Famous for its coffin on a rod (game) and also its mini-coffin with Edward Bear inside it.  The weekly supply plane used to fly low over the KGB and drop the bear to see how the wind and sightings were working but Teddy Bear dropped into the ocean one day an was drowned - and subsequently ceremoniosly put in a coffin (that never got buried)

  The back of the KGB

US Navy radar specialists from Florida were extremely proud of their KGB T-shirts (made specially and only for them)

The Kilda Generating Board is a harmless power station but the Norwegian supply ship was a leased genuine Russian vessel - until it sadly ran agrain at St Kilda one visit.  Another story at the group

Village bay Hirta (St Kilda) and the island of Dunn on the right
On the left one sees Oiseval - the highest cliffs in the British Isles

Dunn houses about 1/3 of the world's puffin population  whilst Hirta is the home of Bonxies (Great Skua) and a zillion Fulmars which the Bonxies chase.  They also chase humans too.  The islanders used to collect Fulmar feathers for selling to the mainland for duvet and cushion interiors.  The stone "kleits" (say: kleets) all over the island were storage sheds for the feathers. Grain was grown in little protected fiels walled with "exclosures" - keeping sheep and other ground animals out.

They used to eat Fulmars too *ugh* .  If a Fulmar ever snorts its stinking nose contents over you then throw away your clothes.  Skunks are "perfume" in comparison.

The gannets live on Boreray and its Stacs as these rocks are almost impenetrable by humans

Boreray with Stacs Lee and Armin

The islands are seldom to be seen so clearly as normal conditions are low cloud, drizzle and rain

As the islands are a World Heritage site, excavations require the earth and turf to be put back each year.  However, the chapel was eventually found by a later work party.  As it was at the foot of a steep mountain full of scree, that is not surprising.  The archipelago is one big heap of old stones in any case LOL

Now see and hear the islands at the Scottish National Trust site at: http://www.kilda.org.uk/Default.htm

Hope you enjoy
Gari, the man from Mann

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Hi to all and a special hi to Wade and a g'day to Nikki (mates from other groups and all that)

I'm Gari the from the Isle of Man in the middle of the Irish Sea

We have enough stuff of 600 to 5'000 old lying around at our doorsteps but my archaeo  "stonie" stuff was out on St Kilda which is 16hrs of Atlantic from Scotland towards Labrador and 5hrs west of the Outer Hebrides.

During my own work there, we were looking for a chapel and only found a midden (making it more crapology than archaeology) and you experienced guys can imagine 2 weeks of rain and drizzle, having to draw the damned muck heap and then trying to get the pencil drawing down a couple of hundred metres in the rain without rubbing it out on our rainwear.

I started a StKilda Yahoogroup on returning but it was not so active and became a library and dormant.  Strangely enough, it now has more than double the membership and a new member joined today.  You can join and see the lovely pics with a simple email to stkilda-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and with a Yahoo ID can view it all at the website.  No need to put yourself onto nomail as there isn't any apart from virus warnings and the odd half-yearly new member that asks something.

Anyhow, get out to St Kilda before you are 70 as the insurance cover won't work after that.  No idea why as I'll be 70 end next year and am fitter than most 50 yr olds

Some good stories to read at that group including the meaning of KGB, the reason for the zebra crossing on an island with one road and one car and also the goings on at the Puff Inn and why folk stay there all night to avoid Bonxies and Sheepchit and falling into the burn.

Here at Care2, I run a travel group but Islands_Countries would probably interest you guys

Anyhow, drop in at "Bird City" and meet the "stonies", "sheepies" and "birdies" - they are all as nutty as the strange people who buried all that stuff

Gari the

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I'm from Vancouver B.C. Canada , a Metis woman. I've been interested in archaeology for years. I am fascinated with petroglyphs and have visited a few places here in Canada.

My favorite place is Writing-on-stone in southern Alberta

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Hi. I am Jim.  I spend most of my time behind the scenes providing income to charities.  I give any legitimate nonprofit a completely free way to raise money with no effort.  I basically do everything for them to make them successful.  I have over 1,500 of the best-known internet merchants on board.  Whenever anybody shops online, these stores send up to 25% of the sale to either an enrolled charity, or a basket of the best charities serving each cause.  I get great satisfaction knowing that I am able to support so many good charities with the income they so vitally need. 

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A big wave from coastal North Carolina. Live on Oak Island. That's about an hour south of Wilmington. Interested in digging/anthropology,history of anything and everything. Have a dog and a box turtle.

I can remember when I was about 8 or 9 yrs old. Lets see... back in the 60's. Used to go visit my cousins in central Arkansas. They grew tomatoes for a living, among other things. We were constantly finding indian bones and pottery.....arrowheads. The fields were full of them. My cousins would just toss them into a box. My cousin, several years ago sold them to a museum. The boxes were full of untold skeletons... whole pottery. We thought nothing of it then... besides we were fascinated. They still have that land. Haven't been back in years and years.

That's what started it for me. Have been to the Archaelogical get together they have at Santee-Cooper in S. Carolina a few times.

Thought I would see what is going on these days on the subject.

Gwen

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I've been lurking here for a while now enjoying the posts but I think I forgot to introduce myself.

I live in a very archaeologically rich area of Israel so preserving these special places is really important to me. Only a few minutes walk from my home is a hill with remnants of human settlement going back at least 6000 years.

Well, this country is really one big archaeological site, so for me it's something hands on: my town has community digs during the school vacations with local children and adults coming to volunteer and help archaeologists researching this region.

Anyway it's great to learn about my personal ancestors and also great to learn so much about archaeology around the world, thanks for a great list!

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I would like to get into archaeology more. I've been to a few sites in Ireland and in southwestern US. My main goal is to open my 7th graders' eyes to this world. Every year a few of them get to go to Crow Canyon in Colorado paid for by our school. I just applied to do an intensive week-long program for teachers there. 

I look forward to the discussions!

Lisa 

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Hello Group-

I have always been interested in archaeology since a child. Have been to Greece, Parthenaon, Acropolis, Knossos Ruins, Cretean Ruins, Ruins of Troy, just to name a few-

Have GIANT interest in anything in the archeological world. Subscriber to several publications of Archeaology.

Looking forward to interacting with group.

Jan

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Hi John, Ian, Brianna and Ruth! Welocome to the Archaeology Group... feel free to ask questions, post messages and generally contribute.

Hope you like it here 

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Good morning all.  I have been a member before, but I'm really an environmental archaeologist and human origins freak. 

I am mostly interested in History, and can't live with Archaeology but I can't live without it.  Just now, I have been reading a book about my local village a sort of figure of 8 shaped sausage corridor about 10 miles long, but we don't talk much about the Northern bit. 

At the crossroads, fairly near me, they used to bury suicides, and we would like to find out exactly where because they have widened the road considerably.  I hope it is in the pub car park so that when they demolish the pub and start excavating the site, they will find the skeletons.  That will stop them widening the road.  Then they won't need so much gravel.  I expect that will please George. 

I am also interested in Iraq.  I wonder if there is any Archaeology left?  or in Iran. 

There could be more done in the post Roman period.  I like the Anglo Saxons.

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Welcome to members new and old, we now have over 300 members!

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Hello Debra, Arci and Andi!

Make yourself at home and feel free to contribute

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Hello, and nice to see such a large group on such a facinating subject!  I'm interested in all things antique and historical, I also have a nice rock and mineral collection.  But my first love is definitely Archeology and I've been diggin' in the dirt for treasure since the day I was born!  I look forward to being part of the group!Debra

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Hi All,

A pleasure to be a part of your group. I have travelled extensively and have been priviliged to have seen many of the antiquites first hand. Its the archeological aspects that also facinate me, however my knowledge is that area is general at best. I am looking forward to the discussions and education.

Arci

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G'Day everyone, I just found this great group whilst perusing Ed's profile. 

I have long been interested in archaeology and anthropology since I chose an anthropology book as my book prize when I was 10yrs old - my teacher kept trying to talk me out of it   I loved that book and the doors it opened.  And now I look forward to learning a lot more here.  I am but an armchair enthusiast.

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Maria P:

Thank you for the welcome.

I would open 3 threads one for each county for those I believe to be the richest in Archeology; Italy, Turkey, and India.  Not going to deep in the thecnical areas of Archeolgy rather bringing out the less known historical, and of course cultural facts and myts.

Is this okay with you?

Thanks. 

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Hello:

I am a middle-aged female from Canada.  I will only call my fascination with the past "History' which would include archeology, cultures, languages, religion, even politics.

I tried to find out if there is a thread here about specific archaeological subjects: architectures, cities, customs, science, literature etc... Would any of you be interested in creating a new thread if one does not exist?   For Example:  I would like to discuss a custom related to widow-remarriages in Ancient India or how Shamanism and Sufism survived side by side in Central Asia, so on.

Thank you for reading.

Nerva

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Hi I'm Sea,

I have an avid interest in all things historical, ancient etc I have a degree in History of Art and Heritage Management (it was 50:50 whether I study that or Archaeology at University....kinda regret the choice I have to admit). I am now a desk driving accountant...long story!

I have far too many books (according to my husband) on archaeology, ancient history and the like and love nothing more than sitting down with a cuppa and delving into history. I also try and absorb all the documentaries I can on this subject although there seem to be fewer and fewer on the box these days.

I look forward to reading and joining in the discussions sometimes.

Thanks!

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Hello Amanda

...and a big hello to all the other new members of the group. We hope you like it here. Please feel free to contribute (it doesn't necessarily have to be about archaeology!)

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Hello,

I have a ba in anthropology and a deep love and fascination with the field of archeaology.

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I love archaeology and discoveries of ancient cities. Egypt.Middle east etc. etc. The Persian empire. Greece and Rome. I read everything about elsewhere to. I do not post much but I do thank you for the hours of informative reading and photo links. I am glad I found you....Peace to all....Antares Star

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Hi group.  Personally, I am facinated by several things.  I love to study the ancient culture , gods, and rituals of Egypt.  I like to study the ancient weapons and battle tactics of the Isrealites before their captivity by the Romans. Also the Myan and Roman myths and death rituals.

   I am not an archeologist, but I hope I can add to the group...

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Good Afternoon to all; My name is Jeff G. I'm from Southeastern Ohio Area. I want to take this opportunity to say hi to all of you; I thank all of you for the time to be spending with you on this Sunday Afternoon. I want to encourage all to glance over my profile that I just put in here.

Thanks;

Jeff G.

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  i saw this group and i thought wowwwwwwwwwww!!!

so im here!!i hope to colaborate ..and enjoy in this group!!

cheers!

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I have always enjoyed the topic of archaeology and glad we have a group for it here. I think I first got my interest with a type of 'learning game' I got as a present as a kid; and it was a chunk of plaster that had fossils within it, and you had to carefully chip away the plaster and uncover the different fossils and it came with a book to tell you what they all were. Thanks for the new thread Maria and bringing some life to this group. My best, Wade

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