Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory News

"Mud Records New York History" I'm so glad that big earthquake yesterday in Papua New Guinea (PNG) didn't kill all the Mud Men, people who come and dance here sometimes. Our graduate director in Anthropology Paula Brown Glick did her fieldwork in anthropology in Highland New Guinea, where Michael Rockefeller was last seen before disappearing. Margaret Mead had studied in the lowlands. There used to be these salt networks, water dripped through bamboo filled with plant ash, making a salt traded up into the highlands there. Boy did tourism take off there! Wow!