I went through the carbon dating data of the bone samples sent to us at the end of the day. They had completed 14 more samples. The trend seemed to continue. The deeper in the pile the bone sample was taken the older it was. The oldest sample date now was over 200 years old.
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Inca's Death Cave:
An Archaeological Mystery Thriller
By Bradford G. Wheler
As you can see, I have a guest reviewer today...found her when I was looking for the trailer and enjoyed her review, When I was considering how to start my review, I was thinking of who would be interested in the novel...My first thought was young adults, college students, lovers of Archaeology... If you fall into those interest groups, be sure to check out this novel out the 19th of this month!
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| I thought, I've only met this man three times and yet I'm more motivated about his project than I've been about anything in decades. On the face of it, it is a crazy almost hopeless project. Yet I somehow truly believe we can do it! It is interesting how motivating a little genuine respect, and heartfelt praise can be... ~~ |
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| I only had a vague idea of what I needed to research. I had spent years studying various aspects of pre-Columbian archaeology but never with something like the search for a cave temple/tomb and especially not at the specific time period we were looking at. I hoped if I did a review withy that in mind I might come up with a pattern that I didn't now see or at least something helpful. Plus the team members were all hard at work, I was being paid well, and treated well, so I had to work hard at something... I started by listing the 25 major sites in alphabetical order... ~~~ |
While Professor Johnson teaches at Cornell with his assistant also working on her degree, they are both asked to take a sabbatical to work for a billionaire character, Walter Falone, who is wonderfully drawn as an individual who we wish would be "the prototype" for how billionaires who
have found this capability within themselves, then moves on to help others to use discovered technical expertise or equipment...or the time of his staff being used to prevent a job being redone by somebody else... Alas, there are not too many like this character, I would imagine, since he doesn't make a big "todo" about the power he has actually come to have...
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| Monastery of St. Catherine Arequipa, Peru |
One of the small space management projects I had while working at a university was to find suitable space to create a "Dig." Unique requirements, right? Where can I put a lot of dirt and then put artifacts there for students to learn how to dig for these items? But it is all so interesting when you find almost forgotten information. For instance, the place that was being sought was supposedly to have been created by an early group whose primary god was the Moon rather than the Sun. Indeed, there are still remains of a Temple of the Moon... Huayna Picchu, Peru ,
This scene brings Professor's grad student, Brilliant Abby Summers, more clearly into the center of the story, when she calmly shoots and kills three of the cartel,,, which soon brings in a new character, her grandfather who takes a job on the farm...
Abby and all the other students add greatly to the story. Most of them are techies...so far above my head and that of most people, that there was a little too much to try to comprehend. On the other hand, I think those in college or just beginning to work will marvel with what is being done with the technological advances created or used by Falcone Advanced Technologies. In fact, I think this was the key difference between this and most other "treasure" hunt stories. Dependency on the technology, and/or working to create, test, and merge uses of technology was part of the project; i.e., there was to be a test of equipment utilization for archaeological purposes... Although I didn't understand much of it, I was nevertheless thoroughly impressed with the results and how it was manipulated to better suit their needs!
An intriguing side story came in when one of those computer programs was to be tested... I'm purposely not mentioning the background because it's a fun part of the story, other than to say that the Professor's Team was called "The Rejects..." One interesting investigation was being done by one of the team on "Quipus" or "Talking Knots"
For the Inca, the system aided in collecting data and keeping records, ranging from monitoring tax obligations, properly collecting census records, calendrical information, and military organization. The cords contained numeric and other values encoded by knots in a base ten positional system. A quipu could have only a few or up to 2,000 cords--Wikipedia
Have you noticed that I haven't actually told what the goal of this project was? That's because I'm not so sure that this is actually the end--yes, I'm hoping for a sequel... There was a find of lots of bones that were found in a pile--it appeared that they had come to that location via the river... And then there is reference to...more...and ends!
You know, the first book I read from this author was about Cats! Do check it out! I'm figuring that this author has the curiosity of cats and plans on telling us more about this wonderful project that's underway! Please....Don't prove me wrong 'cause I'm looking forward to spending more time with this wonderful group of characters who take readers into some beautiful spots of Peru's history!
Looking for a treasure to read? Check out Inca's Death Cave!
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