Location(s) EarthquakeMOSee map: Google Maps

I love new projects, and I've got a pretty nifty one right now. On May 30, 1893, the circus made an unscheduled stop in Tyrone, Pennsylvania.

Location(s) Loysburg DigLoysburg, PASee map: Google Maps  Students in Mr. Phil Waite’s history class at Central High School in Martinsburg, PA are having quite a week.

Location(s) Pumpkin Flood of 1786Danville, PASee map: Google MapsThe rain last week here in central Pennsylvania reminded me of something I came across when I was leading an archeological excavation in Johnstown, PA.

It's October, so it's time for Archeology Month here in Pennsylvania!

Location(s) FerryYarmouth, xxSee map: Google MapsIt's hard to believe, but it was 12 years ago today that a jury in Los Angeles delivered a "not guilty" verdict in the trial of OJ Simpson.

Location(s) Hollidaysburg Public LibraryHollidaysburg, PASee map: Google MapsBeing an archeologist is a great job, and today I get to do one of my favorite parts of that job -- I'm talking to a bunch of kids!

On May 19, 1980, Mt. St. Helens blew its top. The major eruption was captured on film and it was spectacular.

My friend Peggy sent me this article from a newspaper in Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands.  She'd visited this town a few years back when her daughter and son-in-law were on assignment there.  Apparently, the bones in this pile are the remains of victims of the Plague from several centuries ago that were buried in a mass grave.  I don't read Dutch, but it appears that the bones may have been discovered as part of a construction project.  It's an amazing photo.

How would you like to be diving a local quarry or lake and be worried about those angry Falcutus Falcutus. Well, technically you probably would not be too worried, considering that these prehistoric sharks were really only interested in shrimp. Falcutus Falcutus were named for their large dorsel fin jutting up from their head, in the picture to the left it looks like a sickel. The drawing below is a better picture of the sickel like dorsel fin. The males were the only ones to have this first dorsel fin and the other dorsel fin. They developed them when they became mature males.