“Dr. Lepper is the man I turn to for all my Archaeological needs. From Dinosaur eggs to prehistoric hats – Dr. Lepper and the Archaeology team at the Ohio Historical Society are awesome.”
David Letterman
In honor of David's gracious testimonial, we decided to put together our own Top Ten List!
So here are the Top Ten Reasons Why Archaeology Rocks at the Ohio Historical Society, beginning with Number 10:
10. Because at least we’re not the Michigan Historical Society’s Archaeology Department.
Sorry for the gratuitous Michigan bashing, but here in Columbus it's almost obligatory. We actually love the Historical Society of Michigan. They do great work and it’s not their fault they don’t have gigantic ancient earthworks aligned to the sun and moon or the world’s largest serpent effigy.
Here is a link to their website so you can what kinds of things they're up to:
http://www.hsmichigan.org/
As for Dave's reference to Dinosaur eggs -- we'd actually refer those questions to Bob Glotzhober, our Curator of Natural History, since archaeology is limited to a study of the ancient human past.
We'd be all over the hats, though!
Here's the link for Number 9:
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Stay tuned for the rest of the top ten reasons for why archaeology rocks at OHS. We'll post a new one every day for the next nine days.
Hi Brad- that's a great picture and I'm looking forward to your list. I don't think we've met- but I'm descended from a Tallmadgeite (Carol Thomas) and I grew up at St. Mark and knew Mark, Sarah, etc. Thanks for the great blog- i've been following it for several months. Although my background is natural history, it's really interesting to learn about the fascinating cultural history of our great state as well.
-Tom
Brad - you know David Letterman?? How cool is that? As always, enjoy your posts.
OK, we also need to hear the story of how you got to be palling around with David Letterman.
ahcuah & Peggy -- Actually, I was just helping to identify some artifacts for him. It's not like we're golfing buddies or anything.
Tom -- Tallmadge and the St. Marks' community was a great place to grow up!
As someone originally from southern Ohio who now works at the Michigan Historical Commission I am constantly made aware at how magnificent Ohio's Native past is. However, Michigan does have several Hopewellian mound groups remaining in the western part of the state from the Goodall tradition along the Grand and Kalamazoo River watersheds.
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