Saturday, January 21, 2006

Graduate School at Stony Brook University

I just recalled too, that it seems false to think it was the only source. A retired teacher from the Vera Cruz, Pennsylvania area, across from Jasper Park, an ancient cryptocrystalline quartz mine near Allentown, once showed me some carborundum nodules from nearby, along with a "Folsom" looking projectile point he found in the cornfield next door ("The Paleo-American culture of Central America and North America; distinguished chiefly by a thin finely made flint projectile point having the shape of a leaf"), across the street from Jasper Park that the U of Penn. dated to at least 10,000 years old. He was nice. I wrote a proposed reinvestigation of the area for a graduate proposal writing class for a NSF reviewer and Peruvianist archaeologist Edward Lanning, to open some test squares down the road a piece, at the Seem Seed Farm, to whom I also had spoken, as another extension of the Penn. Turnpike was coming through, and I had worked in the nearby Hopewell Village Foundry, staying at the Geigertown Youth Hostel, it could be done cheap. One of the first archaeology articles in the American Anthropologist, which began in the early 20th century, was on the Vera Cruz jasper mines near Emmaus, PA. I had visited it also with a Welsh woman from Uruguay who was attending the university whom I also worked with in Mississippi, Mary FitzHerbert.

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