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It has recently come to my attention that
someone out there is doing a historical project on the Howe Quarry. This was
apparently posted on this list in the last 2-3 days. I missed it and deleted
this from my computer files. As this Howe Quarry project sounds similar to the
one I'm doing on the late 19th-early 20th Century of dinosaur digging here in
Alberta, Canada I would like to learn more about whoever is working on the Howe
Quarry project and where they are. Could one of the subscribers to this list
please alert me (offline) to the story and c.c. me a copy of it?
You may remember my request for how people opened
old-type sardine tins by using a key turn and peel the lid back or
completely off. It appeared someone left-handed was opening these cans in Royal
Ontario Museum quarries in the 1920's and 1930's. Some of you wanted to know the
results. I have not yet totalled all the responses up, but the clear majority
(95%+) was for right-handed people to hold the can in the left hand and turn the
key away from themselves using the right hand and leaving the lid
attached.
A few people wanted to know the logic of my request. We
have many old quarries in Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Drumheller Valley
whose fossil contents were never recorded using a data-bearing quarry stake
placed on site or were accurately marked on maps. Sardine tins are found in some
marked and mapped Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) quarries. Sardine tins are also
found in unmarked or unmapped quarry sites. If I am able to establish that
"John Brown" was on the ROM expeditions from 1925, 1927 and 1928, and
photographs of him show him swinging a hammer or pick left-handed, then I can
narrow my search field down to those 3 years he was at the Park and compare what
was collected those three years to garbage or bone now left on site. Ideally a
picture of him sitting in one of my unidentified quarry sites holding a sardine
tin in his right hand and a fork in his left would settle all questions, but
this has not occurred. I do have pictures of memebers of other expeditions
eating lunch on site- but no sardine tins!
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 |