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Tuesday, May 10, 2005

As some may know I am a Archaeologcial Field Technician, the working class of the Archaeology field. I am in charge of the manual labor, the paperwork involved with said manual labor, and various other tasks. Including photography, mechnical tasks, Newbie training, tick pulling, spider swatting, snake handler.
All in all it is a great job, the experiencee I would not swap for the world.

Well the promo is put off due to time scheduling, but maybe I can get some talking done on the commute to work. For now check out these science news posts....and this older podcast I did awhile ago..is me chattering and some music from some friends of mine. Thanks for coming by.

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Scientists levitate heaviest elements with help from cold oxygen. Scientists at the University of Nottingham have successfully levitated diamond and some of the heaviest elements, including lead and platinum. Using liquid oxygen to increase the buoyancy created by a specially designed superconducting magnet, they could now levitate a hypothetical object with a density 15 times larger than that of the densest known material, osmium. This research is published today (11th May 2005) in the New Journal of Physics co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (the German Physical Society). [EurekAlert! - Breaking News]
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The Norse burial ground at Cumwhitton. An account of the 10th century Norse burials discovered at Cumwhitton, south-east of Carlisle in Cumbria in 2004 and excavated by Oxford Archaeology whose website hosts the report. Despite their widespread presence in north-west Europe, Viking burials are extremely rare, especially in places outside their normal sphere or settlement or cultural influence. The six Cumwhitton graves are significant not merely on account of their rich furnishings, which included numerous brooches, swords and horse equipment but also because the east-west orientation of the burials suggest that the interred were Christian, or at least influenced by Christian belief. Equally, no more than a dozen Viking burials in Lancashire and Cumbria have been identified, mostly from antiquarian reports and none in the past hundred years. The report provides an account of the discovery, an interactive plan of the burial ground, and photographs of the archaeological contexts and of some of the most important finds (images of which can be enlarged). This resource will benefit students and researchers of mediaeval British and European archaeology and history. (Thomas Kiely) [Humbul Resources for Archaeology]
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