User:Archaeo Oliver

My name is Ralph Oliver and I live in the mountains of Northern Arizona near Sedona. I have been an archaeologist and Indian art collector/dealer for over 30 years, specializing in prehistoric Native American material culture in the Indian Reservation areas of New Mexico and Arizona. I was a college teacher in California at one time and left that work for the strangest of reasons. While supervising a "dig" in Central California, one of my female graduate students brought me a Coke bottle that she had just dug up. "Ralph," she said, "did you know the Anasazi drank Coke?" I glanced at her braless, open-topped, sweat-soaked blouse that clung to her ample breasts, took a deep breath, and decided then and there that I could no longer live with the combination of temptation and stupidity, so I gave her an "A," got in my van and left the "dig," never to return. I moved to Oklahoma and later to Colorado Springs where I opened a Native American art gallery that over the next few years became one of the most invigorating and exciting experiences that I had ever dreamed of. I became acquainted with many Native American artists and we became lifetime friends. We visited each other's homes and I was with many as they passed into the spirit world, and we promised to remain friends forever into the eternity that is far above the stars.