I'm traveling to Melbourne, Australia, to meet Cooper! He joined this world Friday the 14th of July, 2017, after 12 hours of labor - great effort Brie. All is well and and everyone is healthy. Packing everything I will need for this journey in to a rolling case measuring 9 inches x 14 inches x 22 inches plus my day pack was a challenge but finally it's done. I'm getting excited about the trip but not about the 26 hours of traveling to get to Melbourne.
Glass Buttes, OR, is interesting both anthropologically and geologically because it is a place people have journeyed to continuously for 14,000 years and still do to this day to collect obsidian. This has been a destination because the obsidian that can be collected at the surface and near the surface with a little digging. Obsidian collected at Glass Buttes in 2016 Obsidian is used to make spear tips, arrow heads, knives, scrapers, essentially all manner of cutting instruments. In the stone age, the edged weapons and tools that could be created with obsidian were critical to survival of early peoples because they depended on these weapons for defense and hunting as well as the tools for processing hides used to make shelters and clothing. Modern day spear tip created in 2016 Testing on blood residue found on ancient tips collected at Glass Buttes has revealed interesting details of what the environment was like many thousands of years ago. Did you know that camels ori...
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