ANTHRO 101

I once went to class at 6:00 AM in college. We had to make up some time for some cancelled classes at Illinois State. Our regular class began early enough for me at 8:00, and in fact I missed it so often that I had to drop it. But I made it to the six o'clock before taking a hike. It wasn't archeology, but that was as close as I got.

This picture was taken in Ephesus, Turkey, in the summer of 2005. It was an amazing find that wasn't there when we visited in 2001. It was excavated at the side of a mountain, and it was fantastic.

It was a huge home, obviously from royalty of the day. Beautiful frescoes and marble and terazzo and all kinds of great walls constructed in the house that had lasted for a thousand years or so. Even in the children's bedrooms, there were drawings/carvings on the wall. Kinda of like graffiti.

When we were in Israel last month, we saw one site at Scythopolis where Jonathan and Saul were hanged by the Philistines. Archeologists had uncovered 20 civilizations built on top of each other on that strategic location. Amazing! Some frescoes there had survived and looked very similar to the ones at Ephesus.

I wish I had gotten up earlier in my college days. It would be no problem now. I might have advanced from Anthro to Archeo. No telling what you might unearth. The possibilities are limitless. It would be cool to go on digs and be able to get dirty. That's still fun.