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Boy you ARE fast! As you'll see, I didn't do it "right" at first - am still not sure if leaving the "stub" thing there too isn't redundant but actually it says more than the template does, so I did. —
Martha (
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00:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Distance from Eugene?
Yay for starting this article Martha! So was it the NY Times that stated the distance from Eugene? That might be helpful if you're not from 'round here, y'all, (to paraphrase a small-town sheriff of my acquaintance) but surely we could leave that part out, since with clickable links, the curious can easily find out more about the location.* Associating the area around Abert Rim with Eugene even in terms of distance seems odd. Maybe its mentioned because the researchers are from the UO? Perhaps it would suffice to say that it is in
Eastern Oregon, or if we can't agree that
Lake County is in Eastern Oregon, just say the caves are in Lake County. Progressively zooming in on a map that only labels the largest cities (i.e. ones people might have heard of), we have Medford (slightly closer than Eugene and more regionally compatible, perhaps?), then zooming in closer we have Bend, K Falls and Lakeview. Suggestions?
*I was wrong about this being in the archaeological district (wrong side of Abert Lake). Fivemile Point is in GNIS (check it in GoogleMaps on the terrain setting--pretty cool!), so would there be any problem with putting those coords in, in terms of it being a protected archaeological site, since it's not the exact location?
Katr67 (
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02:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Now I see this. Obviously I don't think there's anything wrong with publishing the location. It was a bit of a hassle to figure out.
As far as encouraging traipsing through the caves, well that can go either way: if there's a whole bunch of people camped out interested, perhaps they'll discourage damage and looting. On the other hand, it's been 70+ years since it was first documented as having prehistoric human evidence. Given the remoteness of the location, I don't foresee too many evil-doers will bother traveling there. Besides, BLM enforcement and federal law apply. —
EncMstr02:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
While I was busy writing the above, you were simply posting the coords. :) Yeah, I think it's probably OK too. I remember reading some horror stories in my archaeology class about looters, but I don't think bones, seeds and fossilized crap interest those folks so much...
Katr67 (
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03:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Speaking of horror stories, there was a great story in the Oregonian (and by "great" I mean "tragic") about an Oregonian looter...I think the site he looted was in Nevada, but it's conceivable it was
Fort Rock Cave or even Paisley. Ring any bells for anyone? I don't know what terms to search on to find this bad, bad dude. -
Pete (
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05:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Let me shine a flashlight under my chin while we sit around the campfire. .... And it still goes thump, thump, thump, thump every time the wind blows....
(I looked a bit for the looter but w no success)
Back to Katr's question that started this thread, of why state the distance from Eugene - maybe it has relevance in the NYTimes article because the expedition that found the evidence was from U. of O. (in Eugene) (but maybe that doesn't justify saying it here)? I'd have to go back and look, but I'm gettin' tired! so I leave it to you other sleuths. Peter told me I should start the article and I "might be surprised" at what happened - he was so right that I wonder if he pointed youse other guys at it! -?- or did you just find it, because Oregon stuff's Your Business? Best,
Martha (
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06:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Well, after suggesting you create a stub, I naturally watchlisted the article. When it appeared, I did some easy additions. Of course everyone at WP:ORE knew about it.
Cool! An encyclopedia article in the making, right before my eyes! I want to add something about the interpretation of the results being somewhat controversial but have to find that text again in the linked articles. And let's hope for some results from the projects you contacted. —
Martha (
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22:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Oops, I thought I saw something about controversiality, but anything I can find now is too mild for me to insert, seems to fall within the realm of "reasonable caution". —
Martha (
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23:00, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Pretty fun to see what happens, huh? I promise you, I did no more nudging than you saw with your own eyes...sometimes stuff just strikes a chord, and people jump right in. It can be tough to predict, though! Articles like
Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. and
Peter Courtney have been languishing for years, even though they're both pretty well-known folks around here. Go figure! Anyway, glad you made that, and that it's shaping into a decent little article! -
Pete (
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23:18, 4 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Does this need some kind of Infobox?
Location?
Something more specific? Maybe {{Infobox Cave}}?
I tried looking into templates but got lost in the welter - I mean the wealth!
But seems to me there should be something to show WHERE these caves are. —
Martha (
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04:05, 5 April 2008 (UTC)reply
I added your suggestion, but it doesn't seem to be a 100% fit. Perhaps there's a more pertinent infobox for archaeological sites? —
EncMstr19:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)reply
I looked around pretty hard for a more appropriate template, but didn't come up with anything convincing. There is
Template:Infobox archaeological site but it doesn't really seem better to me. I like the feature of {{Infobox Cave}} that lets you say how many entrances, for example. But what's anybody else think? —
Martha (
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00:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Such fun to watch this grow!
Every now and then I check back and see what people have done to this article. It's such fun to see it (still) growing before my eyes! Thanks to all who encouraged me to start it. —
Martha (
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22:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)reply
Coprolites
Were the feces found at the site actually fossilized? If so, how would they have retained any organic material of any kind, much less, DNA? I see a question of accuracy. --
Virgil H. Soule (
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15:55, 10 October 2009 (UTC)reply
Coprolites aren't actually "fossilized", they're just dessicated, which preserves them, (similar to how you can get DNA from a mummy, I'd guess) —Preceding
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146.197.246.30 (
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23:08, 6 November 2009 (UTC)reply
Quote: "...places these coprolites between 12,750 and 14,290 calendar years before the present, probably..." - does that mean
BP? I mean, is it counted backwards from 1950 (when the BP-Range starts as far as I know)? sorry for my english --
Hartmann SchedelProst13:37, 26 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Klamath River?
Speaking of location, isn't a little misleading to put the Klamath River in the mix without a short explanation why? While it's possible that peoples may have wandered up the Klamath to its headwaters and then shifted east across the Sycan flats and the surrounding hills into the headwaters of the Chewaucan and down into the Abert depression, the Klamath is about 100 miles or more to the west. Just sayin', accuracy is accuracy.
Euonyman (
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Euonyman (
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16:51, 15 July 2012 (UTC)reply
There was repetition throughout the article, which I started to fix. I placed location information in the top paragraph and removed the reference to the Klamath River (though it is reasonable to think people moved into the area via the Klamath...there are many possible routes!). I changed "fossilized excrement" to
subfossil excrement.
Answer.to.the.rock (
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23:47, 17 June 2017 (UTC)reply