Sometimes being at home is not as easy as it sounds. Last night a wind roared through here causing the power to flicker and made such a ruckous I checked out the latest earthquake report. Nothing. The answer to what I had heard greeted me this morning when I went outside and saw that a huge branch had shirred the side of the house. All is calm now and I have been wondering about a passion I had when I was younger which was the study of archaeology.
Me surveying in the interior for research.
Salt Spring Island excavation reveals stratigraphy.
Before I married I worked in several areas of
British Columbia and delved deeply into the subject at colleges and at Simon
Fraser University. Some part of me was fascinated with the detective work of it
all and a part of me was trying to sort out where we came from with the known
history of this era. On the island here we seem to be going a bit history crazy
lately. A local archaeologist working on his doctorate has been excavating at a
well known beach nearby, in part to reveal the stratigraphy. I walked to where
the work was being done and was fascinated to see the layers of occupation,
ash, midden, house floors, post holes, fire pits etc. a time profile that is thousands of years in the making. Yes, the fascination for what
the secrets of the past reveal is still within me.
Before I married I worked in several areas of British Columbia and delved deeply into the subject at colleges and at Simon Fraser University. Some part of me was fascinated with the detective work of it all and a part of me was trying to sort out where we came from with the known history of this era. On the island here we seem to be going a bit history crazy lately. A local archaeologist working on his doctorate has been excavating at a well known beach nearby, in part to reveal the stratigraphy. I walked to where the work was being done and was fascinated to see the layers of occupation, ash, midden, house floors, post holes, fire pits etc. a time profile that is thousands of years in the making. Yes, the fascination for what the secrets of the past reveal is still within me.