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Digdigdig! We have had some problems with holes in our back yard. This afternoon we saw who was responsible. I didn't want to get too close, but I tried to get some pictures, because they really are very cute.
"Remember honey, they're less scared of you than you are of them."
Man digging Megatherium. Rio Quequen Salado. 1926.
Name of Expedition: 2nd Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition
Participants: Elmer S. Riggs (Leader and Photographer),Robert C. Thorne (Collector), Rudolf Stahlecker (Collector), Felipe Mendez
Expedition Start Date: April 1926
Expedition End Date: November 1926
Purpose or Aims: Geology Fossil Collecting
Location: South America, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Quequen
Original material: album print
Digital Identifier: CSGEO69576
I work with the photos of Geoff Charles, and I couldn't resist drawing this particular one:
www.flickr.com/photos/llgc/4364693987/in/set-721576232754...
Carcharodon megalodon, Hemipristis, Dusky, Lemon, Tiger, Bull, Mako and sand shark fossils are on display again after resting in the sand for a million-plus years on the shores of Venice, Fla. The 10,000 or so teeth I own have been sitting in my garage since my fossil hunting days of 2004-06. I became hooked when I discovered my first tooth, an extinct Mako. A handful at a time, I combed the beach daily for hours in search of the elusive magalodon, preferably one that wasn't chipped or broken. And when I finally found that treasured 3 1/2-incher, I felt like I had won the lottery. Back in the 1950s, the beaches were covered with prehistoric shark teeth, earning Venice the title of "Shark tooth capital of the World." Today the pickings are slim, unless you're up at 3 a.m. with the other first-come-first-serve, flashlight-toting hunters.
If I've said it once then I've said it a thousand times - I love debut novels from emerging writers - and just lately I seem to have had an affinity with Welsh-based ones. First, although not from an emerging writer of course, there was Caradog Prichard's most excellent One Moonlit Night (Canongate Books). Then there was Jayne Joso's superb Soothing Music for Stray Cats (Alcemi) - which embarrassingly I've still to write up my final super-positive afterthoughts on *blush*. And now there is the possibility of a third in the form of Twenty Thousand Saints by Fflur Dafydd (Alcemi).
Twenty Thousand Saints isn't Dafydd's first novel, but it is her first to be published in English. Currently lecturing in the English Department at Swansea University, and with an MA in Creative Writing from UEA, and a PhD on the poetry of R.S. Thomas from the University of Wales, Dafydd's literary credentials speak for themselves. But if that's not reason enough to make one want to dive into her debut English novel, then maybe the cover blurb will be:
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Archaeologist Deian returns to Bardsey, the island of his childhood, where his mother disappeared without a trace. Sister Viv, closet heretic and host of the annual conference of hermits, has erected a gold plaque in her memory, declaring her unofficial sainthood. Meanwhile, documentary-maker Leri is keen to portray the island's inhabitants as anything but saintly, pursuing a story that has less to do with birds and saints' bones than with real bloodshed. A mystery about excavation - spiritual, linguistic, filmic and sexual.
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Well that certainly sounds like a compelling storyline to me (can you see now why I've presented the book in a freshly-trowelled hole?), but there's yet another reason to pick up Twenty Thousand Saints. And that's because this is the novel that also won Fflur Daffyd the Oxfam Hay Emerging Writer of the Year award earlier this year. Hay Festival director Peter Florence hails Twenty Thousand Saints as being 'the most compelling novel [he's] read in years; a love story, a thriller, and a profound mediation on language and identity.'
Is there any end to the praise for Dafydd's novel? Well almost. The final thing I'm going to say is that Twenty Thousand Saints publisher, Alcemi, have also submitted the novel as its October nomination for the People's Book Prize (an award which is nominated by the readers themselves). Currently it's sitting in top position for the month.
I've personally scheduled my read through of Twenty Thousand Saints for mid-December, so I'll be back round about then to talk about it more. Meanwhile take a look at the product page for the novel on the Alcemi website, and I also urge you to drop by Fflur Daffyd's website, where you can see for yourself just how sickeningly good she seems to be at everything. Yep she's even a renowned singer-songwriter too....*sigh* :)
Alcemi | October 2009 | £9.99 | PAPERBACK | 255 PP | ISBN: 9780955527227
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Teenage boys dig to deepen a well used to water vegetable fields in the Kisale neighborhood of Lubumbashi, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Olivier Asselin. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
While we were digging, Louis and I were discussing symbolism, ritual, treasure and archaeology and stuff. Soren, who had been listening and commenting went quiet for a bit then said 'So, some bollix buried treasure in our garden and we're digging it up?!
Student Katelyn Hageman and alum Bryan Lambing, '16, get ready for her archaeology trip to Tel Aviv, Israel in their favorite maroon outfits.
Hargeisa (Arabic: هرجيسا‎) is the capital of the state Somaliland and the second largest city in Somalia.
These photos are a small side-project from a field mission documenting the work of the Finnish NGO Physicians for Social Responsibility - specifically their long-running effort around TB in Somalia.
P.S. It is not uncommon for words in Somali to have several different spellings in English [e.g. Hargeysa / Hargaysa].
P.P.S. If you've got appetite for more Africa then do see this collection.
Yesterday's image got a line from a T.S. Eliot poem stuck in my head, so I thought I'd try to do an image for another one of my favorite poems today.
Digging by Seamus Heaney
www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177017
Couldn't decide between this version and another one with less blur. Think I favor this one. Really wishing my handwriting didn't suck right now :)
62 meters underground Mustafa (22) and four friends stand in the water up to their wastes, in a humid, hot claustrophobic pit, where they are silently hammering the solid rock with their primitive tools. They slowly poison their bodies every day with toxic dust they breathe.
January 2014
On 7th January 17 people started digging on the site next to Carter's House at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings. They are involved in the important task of preserving the tombs in the Theban Necropolis. An exact facsimile of the tomb of Tutankhamun will open to visitors next spring.
The project has been funded by Factum Foundation.
More information: goo.gl/Eb6M29
Digging for clams on Hartstene Island in the south Puget Sound. You scrape the rocks and oysters away and then dig through the sand to find the clams. You can easily fill a bucket like the one at my foot in about 20 minutes.
Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, also known as Sasan Gir, is a forest and wildlife sanctuary near Talala Gir in Gujarat, India. It was established in 1965, with a total area of 1,412 km2 (545 sq mi), of which 258 km2 (100 sq mi) is fully protected as national park and 1,153 km2 (445 sq mi) as wildlife sanctuary. It is part of the Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests ecoregion.
In the 19th century, the rulers of Indian princely states used to invite the British colonists for hunting expeditions. At the end of the 19th century, only about a dozen Asiatic lions were left in India, all of them in the Gir Forest, which was part of the Nawab of Junagarh's private hunting grounds. Today, it is the only area in Asia where Asiatic lions occur and is considered one of the most important protected areas in Asia due to its supported species. The Gir ecosystem with its diverse flora and fauna is protected as a result of the efforts of the government forest department, wildlife activists and NGOs. However, faced with a drastic drop in the lion population in Gir, after British viceroys brought to his attention the plight of the lion in Asia, the sanctuary is the jewel of Gujarat's ecological resources.
There are now thought to be around 700 Asiatic lions in Gir.