"Earliest Gunshot Victim in New World Is Reported" - NY Times

Posted to histarch today:

Perhaps shot from horseback? I say that as I have had classes with Edward Lanning ("Peru before the Incas" and co-author of "Pre-Hispanic America") and worked for Joel W. Grossman whose Ph.D. was in prehistoric Peru and worked for UNESCO there until an assistant was blown up at a podium, perhaps by "Shining Path" he's related. Incidentally the forensic college cited, Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science, has been involved in major public cases, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Phil Specter trial, etc.

I once worked with close-range photogrammetric developers from Canada, Prometric Technologies, which tried to demonstrate to the US FBI (and similar agency in Canada) the benefits of the technique back in the early 1990s, where we used it for plans and profiles on a couple of sites, particularly of historically unknown contamination and I photographed a number of profiles and plans of archaeological excavations in the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY that way and rectified and produced 3D data some of it plotted from that then developing system. It can have many uses in archaeology and preservation then currently in use in England for automobile accident investigations.

In the interest in developing standards for this type of recording shown in the NY Times, I have found that at least in the Bowdoin Park Dutch Reformed burials back in the 1980s (in former JP Morgan summer-place, as the federal supplied sewer money ran out) and the so-called "First Almshouse" burials in 1999 in New York City's City Hall Park, the oldest city hall still in use as one in America, on the former green, to be lacking. One with grids made from window screens taken from a step ladder and other basically just hand sketched in, to me, troubling procedures after working in more dimensions, the 2D digitizing from photo interest "points" becoming 3D data for further use. For example the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City may be measured after a time of photos to see if any of the stone blocks have moved, or because of the extreme accuracy that can result, the pipes in a nuclear power plant.

George Myers (not the known opinion of any of the others mentioned)

NY Times: "Earliest Gunshot Victim in New World is Reported"

Thanks for the clue. The Washington Post is much clearer and has a photo essay which shows the contrast in the mortuary practices between the two and the archaeological evidence only mis-reported it seems in the NY Times I was off about.

Washington Post article and photo essay

There's also a report of troops getting archaeological playing cards in Iraq to help them recognize archaeological sites, imploring them to drive around them rather than over them. I still have a picture in my mind of the small palisade site that is "Pine Camp #1" archaeological site at Fort Drum with the wooden snow fence around it except where the tank tracks had pulled up and stopped just over the fence. It's been part of the research on the "St. Lawrence Iroquois" thought one of the earlier groups of their legacy in the "A2A" area (Algonquin to Adirondack) known for its interesting agricultural settlement patterns and wildlife and according to some legend, site of the early "state formation" of the League of the Iroquois. Even early stone canal structures according to Parks Canada.

Iraqi Archaeology Playing cards:

George Myers

Apologies for reposting, what I meant to post was stopped as Google engineers repaired the email account at gmail they said.

Thanks for the clue. The Washington Post is much clearer and has a photo essay which shows the contrast in the mortuary practices between the two in situ. The archaeological evidence appears to be mis-reported in the NY Times.

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There's also a report of troops getting archaeological playing cards in Iraq to help them recognize archaeological sites, imploring them to drive around them rather than over them.

I still have a picture in my mind, from survey, of the small palisaded village site that is "Pine Camp #1" archaeological site at Fort Drum with the wooden snow fence around it except where the tank tracks had pulled up and stopped just over the fence. It's been part of the research on the "St. Lawrence Iroquois" thought one of the earlier groups of their legacy in the "A2A" area (Algonquin to Adirondack) known for its interesting maize based agricultural settlement (wild rice?) patterns and wildlife, and according to some recorded legend, site of the early "state formation" of the League of the Iroquois noted by Benjamin Franklin, as to perhaps be emulated in "America". There's even some early stone canal structures according to Parks Canada that have been difficult to date in the St. Lawrence Seaway opened by President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth near Fort Drum, NY. And a secret "Skull and Bones" compound in the Thousand Islands nearby in the news again over the alleged theft of Geronimo's bones by the Yale University "fraternity" while President Bush's grandfather was there.

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George Myers