adminrjoe 1st posting of 2015 – A Happy and well employed New Years to all! (See a link below the fold for my pithy, but well intentioned, thoughts on the New Year 😉 Onto the posting! Best, R. Joe The Archaeological and Historical Conservancy is hiring local archaeological technicians for completion of field excavations in … Read more
1st posting of 2015 – A Happy and well employed New Years to all! (See a link below the fold for my pithy, but well intentioned, thoughts on the New Year 😉 Onto the posting! Best, R. Joe The Archaeological and Historical Conservancy is hiring local archaeological technicians for completion of field excavations in … Read more
 Dating back to the days when you could count the number of ShovelBums in the country on two hands after three bourbons comes the greatest treasure trove of MSDOS (that’s Microsoft Disk Operating System kids) games ever.  You can play these *now* for free, in your browser, with no plugin needed.  So now it’t … Read more
 X-ray of time capsule   The (modern) public is getting its first glimpse inside a time capsule dating to 1795 and believed placed by Samuel Adams and other Revolutionary War figures that will be opened live on Monday at 6pm and go on display Tuesday evening at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. … Read more
Note the meter sticks 🙂 This picture is in a lot of news articles, but it is actually the tomb of Princess Shert Nebti in Abu Sir, south of Cairo, dating from around 2,500 BC and discovered in 2012   Abu-sir, a cemetery used by the Egyptian capital Memphis. This is the cemetery where Khentakawess III … Read more
Austrian Filmmaker stopped from continuing “archaeological” excavations of “Nazis’ ‘biggest secret weapons facility” Waffen SS helmet found by Sulzer’s crew. Austrian Filmaker Andreas Sulzer reports that he is close to exposing the largest secret weapons facility built by the Nazi’s during WWII using slave labor from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. But according to reports other than having Historian Rainer … Read more
January 1st, 2015 Today is the 1st page of a new 365 page book that only you can write. Others might annotate it, but only you hold the pen that fills your pages. Behind you are the closed and bound volumes of years past that fill the shelves of the Library Of Your Life. Don’t … Read more
 “[Yesterday] was a moment in history — hundreds of Native people marched and rallied at FedEx Field, the so-called cathedral of the Washington team,” she said. “While we were screamed at, sworn at, told to ‘go back to the reservation’, we greeted fans and handed out educational flyers. [And] as Washington brought their season … Read more
Hester Davis passed away this morning.  More to follow. Hester was a keystone in building the program at Arkansas where I eventually got my masters and where ShovelBums was born. It’s a small field and we are interconnected in myriads ways.  Never forget that. We all impact each other at some point. Make your impact positive … Read more
On December 29, 1890  alongside Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota the US 7th Cavalry Regiment.  The Lakota were following Chief Spotted Elk of the Miniconjou Lakota nation who had been called to the Pine Ridge Agency.  The 7th Cavalry Regiment had met them part way and escorted the Lakota to Wounded … Read more