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Saturday is Review day at the Chamber of Mines, nothing new, Q&A and look at the rocks, and I take the opportunity to skip out and do another form of prospecting. Garage Sales.
Finds include a broken trumpet, trombone stand, pinwheel crystal vase, a box of role playing games for $10 that I flip in Calgary for $130, and the two treasures pictured below:
A vintage ceramic ashtray, with rocking bobble legs, animated by Google Auto-Awesome, and the Acupuncture kit pictured below:
They're longer than they look. With these I've almost completed my holistic and occidental medicine course, Dentistry or Acupuncture? Now to hang my shingle and find some patients...
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A rather inspiring article at Mental Floss detailing 7 of the most significant treasure finds in (mostly) Europe the past 7 years.
Link: http://mentalfloss.com/article/63053/7-incredible-hoards-discovered-past-7-years
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The curious tale of a dysfunctional couple of British art forgers who managed to crank out a wide array of "antiquities" and and artworks and sell them on as original finds and treasures to prominent galleries both in Britain and abroad.
Link: http://narrative.ly/pulp-non-fiction/artist-conman-and-15-million-fraud/ (small link to skip registration.)
Raising the question, without the provenance or history, what is the value of art? Does it have value in it's own right?
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"Researchers used the new survey of the Messak Settafet to estimate that enough stone tools were discarded over the course of human evolution in Africa to build more than one Great Pyramid for every square kilometer of land on the continent."
Link: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/saharan-carpet-of-tools-is-the-earliest-known-man-made-landscape
And I get discouraged because I can't find a single Arrowhead. No wonder.
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And while not exactly treasure, this is interesting; a girl feeds crows, the crows, in return, bring her the treasures they find in the neighborhood.
Intriguing.
Link: http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026
The concept of reciprocity with wild animals. We all know this with cats (the dead mouse, bird, on the doorstep, in the bed), but all in all I prefer the tastes of crows....
UPDATE: And this, related: http://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/hbm038-do-crows-mourn-their-dead