If you’ve been vacationing in the Orlando , Florida area for a few days, you’ve probably realized by now how outrageously expensive the big theme parks can be. Perhaps you are looking for a break from the Disney and Universal parks, and hoping to find a family-style attraction that’s a little easier on your wallet. […]
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Stories of buried treasure and sunken vessels float through the mind of most children at one time or another in their life. And some children just never seem to grow up, continually searching for ships resting of the sea floor, laden with gold, silver, and jewels worth millions of dollars. Such is the story of […]
Archaeologists don’t have treasure-hunting adventures like Indiana Jones. Many don’t even dig. Instead, archaeology offers specialized career paths covering a host of interests. As the study of the past, archaeology explores almost every imaginable aspect of human experience (there are even experts on fossilised faeces). Many archaeologists do a bit of everything, and few work […]
It’s strange how some aspects of hunting are reversing themselves. Thousands of years ago a simple spear was the top of the line weapon for acquiring the meat that made life possible. After the demise of the gigantic paleo era beasts the weapon of choice became the bow and arrow. Nobody knows exactly when the […]
Living on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan all my life, the mysteries of Great Lakes shipwrecks have always been of great interest. Add that my father was a merchant marine on the Great Lakes until the day he died as a crew member of the Edmund Fitzgerald before it sank. It is noted that […]