return of the neep!

[researchgrrrl]

My afternoon turned unexpectedly frustrating, but I mostly regained my Zen by getting my geek on. I'm delighted that current finds in archaeology are actually rocking out with insight into various bits of legend, magic spells, and other random stuff.

Sacred Cave of Rome's Founders Discovered

Most of y'all probably know the story of Romulus and

Comments

[amy_star_]

You are the awesomest. For real.

*off to read*

[researchgrrrl]

There's some cool stuff going on right now. And, of course, I totally mean by the chick who's looking for Bigfoot in Oregon. :D

[amy_star_]

Hey, if I were looking for Bigfoot I might start in Oregon, too.
Though I'll confess to being more interested in who's in the jars...

[researchgrrrl]

One of my favorite lines was this:

"An animal-creature mythological being," is how this field worker described the gaping, hairy 6-foot creature he glimpsed.

The rest of the world? Totally calls that "one of the hippies from Eugene." :D

That jar story is pretty cool, isn't it? I love those kind of "...WTF?" moments. Here's another fun one I was just reading, in which a skeleton long thought to be a monk's is likely a woman's bones. Good times.

[katya23]

The rest of the world? Totally calls that "one of the hippies from Eugene." :D

:P

[researchgrrrl]

\o/

[amy_star_]

"one of the hippies from Eugene."
LOL!

Well, if some people believe there was a female Pope, then I suppose a female monk wouldn't be out of the question? Right?

[researchgrrrl]

I only know the tiniest bit about the Blackfriars. Whether it's realistic that they had a woman as a monk in their midst, I dunno. What I do know is that I'd be delighted to read a story that fleshed out the idea because, hey, why the hell not?

I'm just giggling at the idea of the osteoarcheologist looking at this skeleton and being all "Oh, for fuck's...did anyone even look at the pelvis at some point in the last forty years? Hello?" :D