Comments | amolegere: Magpies and Stones

amolegere

Magpies and Stones

May 22, 2010 14:55

Funny story. We have magpies EVERYWHERE here, they have stalked the people preparing food at times. Yesterday we were having fun shifting sand, etc. and we had some pretty darn nice finds (by our standards, anyone else would be bored...). We left for our siesta and when we came back and started to retrieve our buckets and shovels from the ground ( Read more... )

stones, magpies

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agh_4 May 23 2010, 01:02:03 UTC

The second story is reminding me of when, in The Thief, Gen has to break through the [door] in the temple! Whack!

It sounds like you are having FUN, staring peoples or not! And finding cool history/old stuff! A stylus! Do you know what kind of bone it is?

amolegere May 24 2010, 12:37:58 UTC

Yes, it was rather like that! Gave it a few good whacks with a heavy metal object. The difference being that the obsidian gave way, this stone did NOT. Lol, it's a good sized chunk, I tried to estimate its size now that we've cleared the top, it looks about 4x2 feet. The story has now been circulated amongst our team and is quite the source of entertainment, the rock is now known as Patricia's Rock.

I know!!! I was so excited!!! I took pics and will of course upload them when I can. I don't know what type of bone it is, our bone expert has yet to arrive, and I don't know if they can tell without doing DNA or something, because it is carved down so much that any diagnostic somethings (I don't know much about species ID from bone) would have been carved off.