Dating

I went on an interesting date this weekend with an archaeologist who works for the Texas Tech Museum. He picked me up in his jeep, and gave me the behind-the-scenes tour of Lubbock circa 16,000-10,000 BCE. We crawled around dig sites while he explained things about sediment and GPS devices. Then he took me to the lab to admire stone tools and, of all things, a 3 million year old jawbone from a woolly rhinoceros. I was delighted at the rows and rows of little boxes, each containing skeletons of local animals and birds - they use them to help identify the remains of their ancestors. Actually, the boxes of mammoth bones weren't so little. I asked where the modern skeletons came from, and he showed me the "animal morgue" refrigerator, which is exactly what it sounds like. There was a whole shelf of prairie dogs in ziplock bags. As a girl whose favorite childhood toy was her dissection kit, I found this pretty cool. Then we went out for huevos rancheros. I may reciprocate and take him to the IMAX theatre.