I finally saw a bottle of this last week, and decided to take the plunge based on your effusive recommendation. Holy hell, you weren't kidding, this is a fantastic beer! I will definitely be splurging again.

This is an Oldowan flake tool, where it all started:

The good news is that it's already out for this year, almost 2 months earlier than normal!

I actually slowed down my read and took a couple of weeks to finish it because I seriously didn't want it to end.

I'm super excited, although I felt like it ended very well and doesn't necessarily need a sequel.

on east 6th, it's Lone Star and Fireball or Jameson.

I drink a fair amount of that too, but mostly the seasonals.

Proud resident of the Lone Shiner Republic. While I enjoy a fancy beer from time to time (both Austin and Texas at large have a lot of great options), once the heat kicks in (sometime in early March) its either Lone Star (or as I lovingly call it, Texas Yella) or Shiner Ruby Redbird until early November.

Looks like they moved some dirt (and probably those large rocks) around a bit. I read on that story's comments that the stock had come off of the gun, maybe covered by leaf litter?

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths is Book Zero in my becoming an archaeologist. My love of the myths led me to pick up a book about Heinrich Schliemann's discoveries of Mycenae and Troy. The idea that someone could find the real places in these stories, and some of the real people (well, allegedly), seemed like the…

Good timing on this article, when Austin is barely above freezing and about to get a wintry mix over the weekend :)

Lots of people had the same question, and a lot of articles glossed over some points because it made the story less "sexy".

The study also shows that at least most of the dogs in North America were not independently domesticated from the local wolves.

Dogs certainly existed throughout Mesoamerica, but the Taino were/are a Caribbean culture with stronger ties to northern South America, and not generally considered to be part of the Mesoamerican sphere. There are a few possible traces of contact/interaction.

A few years back, I was working on a site excavation at Fort Hood (here's a link to a bunch of photos I took during the project). We didn't find a whole heck of a lot during our work, but we did have one interesting feature show up in a backhoe trench (we dig those sometimes so we can get a profile view of what the…

I was surprised last weekend when I couldn't find or buy a streaming version of the original trilogy, fortunately I still have my VHS of the non fuxored movies and a working VCR.

Word. Got one of those when I got married, and when I got divorced neither of us wanted it because it was such crap.

cool, will check it out. also, if you're near a BedBathBeyond, they may have it there for cheaper than online, or cheaper on their webstore (especially if you can track down a 20% coupon).

It was found originally in 1855, and reburied with newspapers and the coin. The original was also apparently in a leather pouch, and was put into the metal box in 1855. According to the linked article, the contents had also been cataloged in 1855 and were already known prior to the 2015 opening.

When I was a little kid, it was Lincoln Logs.