Prehistory and archaeology fans will want to check out the latest archeaology carnival from the 4 Stone Hearth series — Number 19 is up at Sherd Nerd.
Texans may want to pay particular attention to the links to John Hawks’s blog, where he talks about the coming display of Lucy, in Houston, with further links. Hawks notes controversy among the U.S. community of Ethiopians; Texans may worry more about complaints from Texas creationists.
Either way, you need to check it out. You can link back here, to my post on stories and history, too (thanks, Sherd Nerd!).
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
I don’t know all the story and I don’t know how “famous” they are with the new IDists. But they go with the Cardiff Giant theme and involve George Carter, Texas geographer (who did do interesting work on chicken migrations between old and new worlds), and his discovery of dinosaur footprints alongside human footprints (in California; I always thought Texas Street was in Texas). The “hearths” were in fashion (highly controversial) in the 1950s(?). My memory of arcane info fails me further.
It also involved arguments between “scientific experts” and arguing mostly on the basis of whose credentials one preferred to believe and the “establishment” vs “the creative thinkers”
The larger issue, how to examine evidence, is still relevant, whether the argument is about settlement of the Americas by Celts or dinosaurs coexisting with humans or replacing your metal fillings. The other major issue is the willingness of people to forgo learning history and historical process, to fail to understand that people do change, by building on the previous (E.T. go home)
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Pam, let me confess I’ve never heard of them! I found one reference Googling — to a paper that suggests “the high phosphor content suggests they were never occupied by man.”
Can you enlighten us?
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“Texas” and “hearth” and pseuds leads me to ask when will you be visiting the Texas Street Hearths?
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