User talk:U.franklinphd

My most memorable work happened in 2009, I spearheaded a phase 2 archaeological dig in western Indiana. The site known by the locals as Hoosier Hills. After working at this location for what seemed an eternity, I, along with a great team, discovered a perfectly preserved specimen of the Slope Head Indian Tribe. Most of the artifacts that were found in this dig were shipped off to the SHPO and to several universities for further carbon dating. I am now working in northeastern PA, on a linear ditch believed to hold the remnents of prehistoric civilizations that were well versed in the production of mind altering drugs, using the bark of the White Birch, skin of a snapping turtle's leg and the foreskin of an adult white tail deer. That's about it for me...

Slope Head Indian Territory
The prehistoric civilization that captivated the hearts and minds of the locals of a small western Indiana town in 2009, known as the Slope Head Indian Territory. While on an archaelogical dig in this aluvial plain, we first encountered vast amounts of lithic scatter, with large burn pits located approximately 36 meters from the Whitewater River. Our initial discovery of the specimen labeled as 3M-TA3, was shortly after a rainstorm washed off a section of previously disturbed ground. The perfectly preserved hand still clutching what appeared to be a large diamond. Upon further investigation, it was revealed that this was no diamond, it was in fact, something much more precious to all of the world... It was a quartz crystal arrow head. We later found several, all verying in size and clarity, one was actually as green as the glass of a Rolling Rock beer bottle. 3M-TA3, would eventually be affectionately known as Teddy James, was small in stature (about 1.4m tall) and notably thin. The forehead was slanted back as if there may have been some sort of birth defect, but was a common characteristic among all of the skulls found in the area, hence the name "Slope Head".Later in the course of the dig, we located what I assumed was a sort of banding apparatus for the constriction of the heads of the babies, to give them what we call today, areodynamics. Teddy James had another oddity that threw the whole team for a collective loop, that was the left arm was nearly 19 cm longer than the right. Once again, this was not rare among the skeletons found. This, along with the sloping of the heads and the quartz crystal arrow head made me feel as though I was on a historical find that would ensure my place in archaeological history.