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Colleagues,
I can use your help with one of my
projects. As part of my ongoing research on the history of dinosaur paleontology
collecting/collectors in Alberta, Canada I'm studying garbage found at old
dinosaur quarries- sites which have been unidentified for many years. We have
found several IDENTIFIED sites excavated by Levi Sternberg that contain old
sardine tins. We have found other UNIDENTIFIED sites that we believe were also
excavated by Levi Sternberg, because we found the same types of sardine tins
there. However, to my mind they appear to have been opened by a left-handed
person. We are not sure if Levi was left-handed and this point has raised
questions on how a person would open a sardine tin in the first
place.
This is where you come in. Imagine you are
opening a sardine tin. NOT the modern type with a pull tab, but the older type-
with a slotted key. How would you open this?
1. Holding the can in the left hand and
using right hand to turn the key and lid away from you?
2. Holding the can in the right hand and
using the left hand to turn the key and lid away from you?
3. As per #1 but turning the key and lid
toward you?
4. As per #2 but turning the key and lid
toward you?
5. Removing the lid entirely or leaving a
small section of it and the key attached to the can?
While odd sounding, this is a serious query. I would
also want to know if you are left or right handed, or ambidextrous. If anything
useful comes out of this exercise, I'll include the results in a manuscript I'm
currently working on. As I seriously doubt this would be a debateable topic to
discuss among the group, please reply offline.
I am also experiencing some trouble
linking onto my own dinosaur paleopathology website. My server says the problem
is fixed but I still have problems. I'd be grateful if some of you could try
linking onto it (hotlink provided below) and letting me know if it worked or
not.
Darren Tanke, Tech. I
Dinosaur Research Program Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology Drumheller, AB, Canada and Senior Editor, Paleopathology and Recent Dento-Osteopathology Bibliography; see homepage at: http://dns.magtech.ab.ca/dtanke |