Martha’s Anniversary: Passenger Pigeon Events
With the 100th anniversary of the death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon, only days away, Ectopistes-related events are happening…
Passenger Pigeon Lecture at New York State Museum
Next month, the New York State Museum will be presenting a lecture on the passenger pigeon. Jeremy Kirchman is no…
Riders in the Sky: An Introduction
Who, you may ask, are Riders in the Sky, that I should care that one of their members has read…
Reading the Cowboy Way: Ranger Doug Finishes all 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Guitarist and lead yodelist Ranger Doug of the band Riders in the Sky just completed a five year odyssey reading…
Fold Your Own Passenger Pigeon
Fold the Flock, a part of the Lost Bird Project, has created a free origami template so you can print…
Lamoka Animal Bones 1991
A sample of bones from the 1991 Lamoka Lake excavations. Lots of identifiable stuff here.
Archaeology Journals and Impact Factors
Those in tenure-track positions care a lot about impact factors; other people, not so much. Elsevier, which coincidentally also publishes…
Have Deer Gotten Smaller Since the Archaic?
The average white-tailed deer killed during the Late Archaic at Lamoka Lake weighed 77 kg, or 170 pounds. That’s the…
Gold Miners Find Trove of Pleistocene Animal Bones
Animal bones from the last Ice Age are continually being exposed by gold mining in the Yukon. The provincial government…