[meteorite-list] Roach Dry Lake

From: Grant L. Elliott <gle_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:47 2004
Message-ID: <000a01c3c259$d4cc1bd0$35d0fea9_at_yourah1qbb56u1>

Charlie,

Your last comment reminded me of this book:

Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with
the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo
scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound
pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma

Grant Elliott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Devine" <moonrock25_at_webtv.net>
To: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com>
Cc: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Roach Dry Lake


> Hi Rob, John, Mark and list
>
> Rob wrote:
>
> >In a given day at Roach, I probably pick
> >up a couple thousand rocks, piling them
> >up in this manner.
>
> I wonder, if in some far distant future, an archaeologist will write a
> thesis on "The stone cairns of Roach and other dry lakes of the Far
> West: towards a solution". :-)
> I was just looking at a copy of Ancient Hunters of the Far West, 1966,
> by Malcolm Rogers, a former director of the San Diego Museum of Man.
> Many photos of stone cairns and stone enclosures dubbed sleeping circles
> in southern California. Apparently these are several thousand years
> old. Makes me chuckle to think in a millennium or 2, people may scratch
> their heads over all those meteorite hunter rock piles.
>
> Charlie
>
>
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