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At about the same time, Erika Varady of Kansas State University submits a post about her work on Catalina Island in California. Erika and her team of 20 people are attempting to identify, survey, and map the history of the indigenous people called Gabrielino/Tongva. The work is demanding. Erika's blog entry tells us that she is suffering from sunburn, blisters, and perpetual chocolate cravings. And, as with the Hope and Albania dig sites, the entire world is peeking in.The fact that Jamie, Lily, Colleen, Erika, and more than 100 others are studying Indiana Jones style is highly appropriate given that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is playing on screens in thousands of movie theaters during the summer of 2008. The rest of us peering in from around the world are armchair Indiana Jones'. Sitting here from office at Indiana University, I find myself among them. I am no Indiana Jones. But I can be learning from their experiences almost as instantaneously as they are thanks for the Web. |
