And this is? A) A poor man's harp B) A doll clothes drying line C) None of the above

Piece of a 1990s newspaper article about President Clinton, trade, most favored country status, & China.

A selection of Roman glassware, mostly from the eastern provinces & made 1600-2000 years ago - and a clear demonstration of how much the Romans like a bit of colour in their homes!

9 clay beads before & after firing with Munsell color values. #ceramics #archaeology

Patch kitty. #cats #Caturday

Slime mold (Sporangia) fruiting bodies on yellow lawn mower paint. #nature

Yellow-orange rock lichen. #nature

A shell-tempered pipe in the wild. #ceramics

This commercial earthenware clay, even after adding a little very fine sand & a lot of shell, feels like Silly Putty. It's also a little weak. I'm going to have to start over & build thicker walls...but not tonight. #ceramics

Some interesting colors...#ceramics

I've never used red ochre as a wood paint/stain, but this looks like it will work nicely. I also have brown & yellow ochre to adjust the color to my liking. #archaeology

Firing a shell-tempered pipe & some various temper clay beads this afternoon. 1/ #ceramics #archaeology

Little sister says they are so busy doing archaeological projects from Mississippi to New Mexico that she is not getting much sleep managing them all. I told her it was a good thing she's getting rich. 🤣 Archaeologist joke. 💰

Damn! Shell usually calcines above ~700° C, with 600° C being the very minimum. The Barton pot was fired at 685° C & is now slaking. #ceramics

This article make absolutely no sense. They blame imported shrimp while stating that dockside LA domestic shrimp are $1 lb, while imported shrimp are $4 lb. I think they forgot to mention the seafood processors charge for domestic shrimp. Or they need better marketing. www.kplctv.com/2025/11/14/o...

Translucent brown chalcedony flake from the Wetherington Island Site (8HI473), Hillsborough Co., FL. Site 8HI473 is in the same Indigenous quarry area as the famous Paleo site of Harney Flats. #archaeology

Absolutely nothing political retaliation about this. Right?

Possession is 9 cats of the law. #cats

Tales of distractions past.

Oligocene silicified wood from west-central Louisiana. #fossils #FossilFriday

It me 35 years ago, Nov. 23, 1990, excavating a Kirk (Early Archaic can 7900-6575 BCE) site in Maryland. At the time it was the earliest site found in Anne Arundel County. #archaeology

I started this pot of yaupon tea at 10 PM Tuesday night & haven't added anything but water to replace the cups of tea we have removed. Might have to add more leaves tomorrow evening. #yaupon #tea

Four views of a large chalcedony cobble with a smooth, round depression & battered ends from Site 16BE70, Beauregard Parish, LA. The distal end has battering consistent with use as a hammerstone, The proximal end has some minor battering. The depression is 2 mm deep & ~33 mm wide. 1/ #archaeology

Very dark brown chalcedony tertiary flake from Site 8HI473, Hillsborough Co., FL. The chalcedony is starting to patina, more so on the ventral side (2nd image) than dorsal side (1st image). The platform is to the right. #archaeology #rocks

I forgot that I turned the #yaupon tea on to steep at 8 AM this morning. I might need a whip & chair. #tea

There was a MS Bing update on one of my computers. Now, if I have a typo in a search string & hit Enter it won't allow me to change it. There cursor keeps going to the end of the string. I've tried every workaround & looked at every setting. The only thing I can do is delete the search & start over.

No, the previous owners didn't put concrete pads under the cinder blocks like you need to do. Bearing the weight of the storage shed & contents, the cinder blocks slowly sank down through the topsoil & stopped at the clay fragipan. Did I mention idiots?

The idiots (I mean previous owners) apparently did not put concrete pads under the cinder blocks that supported the storage shed when they moved it onto the property. That was why it kept sinking a little bit each year. Did I mention idiots? 🫤

Cold night, warm lap & #gaming. #cats

Large thermally altered flake from Site 8HI473, Hillsborough Co., FL. We recovered very few heat-treated flakes from the site. It appears that people quarrying lithic materials at the site at various times were taking it elsewhere to make finished products. #archaeology

Patch & It'l Bit decided it was too cold outside tonight. #cats

Identical shell-tempered clay mix down to the 1/20 oz. (1.42 g) (i.e., both 15.25 oz. or 432.33 g) for a twin build. I'm going to attempt 2 identical vessels but somewhat different in decoration. Think negative & positive. These won't be up for auction, but will be for sale. #ceramics #archaeology

If the economy goes further south, we now have that covered.

Top) brown & honey colored chalcedony flakes from Site 8HI473. Bottom) northern Florida white & yellow-beige chert flakes, possibly from Site 8LI76. Dorsal sides. The flake striking platforms (or remnant) are to the top. #archaeology

Degraded sample of freshwater mollusk shells from a blufftop household shell midden at a Late Weeden Island village (Site 8LI76) on the Apalachicola River in Florida. They will be used for shell temper in ceramic reproductions. #ceramics #archaeology

Oligocene-Miocene silicified coral Indigenous hard percussion flake & bifacial thinning flake from the Wetherington Island Site (8HI473), Hillsborough Co., Florida. 1/ #fossils #archaeology

The previous owner ers Nativity scene has been in the top of the canopy for at least 30 years. Apparently they are cut out of marine sheeting because the termites didn't touch them.

The worker knew what he was doing. A few select cuts & both the shed & canopy came down like a house of cards.

Le chat de profil. #cats #Caturday

Patch, writhing on the driveway, waiting for me to come back from getting the mail. #cats #Caturday

Unoccupied for over a month, It'l Bit moved into the vacant bag. #cats

Patch 🏈 kitty. #cats #football #LSU

Patch last night while I was recording bead colors, "You aren't paying attention to me."

The worker made good headway on the old shed & brush. Be glad when it's all gone so I can use my burn pile without fear of accidently setting fire to this fire hazard.

Kaolin clay historic (ca. 1720-1820) pipe reproduction. I accidently broke it taking it out of the fire pit. #ceramics

The Old Copper complex, was an ancient Native American culture around Michigan that mined (>5,000 mines) & worked the 99% pure native copper for tools, weapons, and ornaments as far back as 9,500 yrs. Fascinating! #MichiganCopper More #OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

Some mixed clay came off the worker's boots yesterday from sonewhere. Black, very dark brown & strong red clay. So...I collected it & ground it into powder.🤣 #ceramics