If someone can explain to me how to post photos, I will. I just got back from the Jacana site and have photos that no one else does of the pectoglyphs and what we did there.
The PR government is the problem with the whole thing. Between them, the press in PR stirring up lies about what was really going on, and having to hire a 24/7 security force to watch over the police(who was in turn watching over the security force to make sure neither looted the site in the middle of the night), we’re just happy to be home. Gees, do I have stories to tell...lol. I have firsthand knowledge about what was really the issues in PR, so, please don’t think that New South, or any of us Americans are screwing up any potential archeological sites in PR. No, it’s nothing like Mexico. No, no one has stolen artifacts from the people there. Wanna scream about artifacts being stolen? Try bashing the Universities in Europe that have dug in PR for several decades, then after the artifacts have been taken to Europe and they’re done looking at them, sell them on their own University websites to try to raise money for their own archeological exploits...lol. Or, scream about the lead archeologists in PR having EXTENSIVE personal collections from these sites. If the government, and other entities, in PR are complaining about US borrowing the stuff we found on Corp land, the only reason left would be because we actually ARE doing archeology and they can’t pick and choose what they want to put in their own personal showcases. I know archeologists down there that have looked for supposedly curated artifact collections in museums from the last 30 years, and can’t find even one single piece of broken pottery from entire sites, when the artifact logs say they are in the possession of them. Certain entities down there even throw away ALL of the artifacts in the trash in order not to have to look over them. Throwing artifacts away there is evidently a pretty common practice. So is making a mountain out of a molehill. In PR, overdrama, smallman’s syndrome, lying, cheating, stealing, manipulating, and misinformation rule over the common people with an iron fist. Most all of the politicians and cops are corrupt and you can’t arrest any of them, because they’ll just get replaced by someone that’s the same way (so, what’s the point?) The common people know all of this to be true and we had many conversations about that fact with them while we were there. They just feel like there is no point in even trying to change things. It’s not like here. The regular people of PR are family-oriented, funny-as-hell, easygoing, great cooks;), and are the type of folk that give you hugs and shed a tear when you leave. You don’t get to hear from them, unless you are there for a month or two. I wasn’t allowed to post on here about Jacana until we were done with the site because of the severe dramas that exist in the heirarchy there, but thank God I’m home now, gees.
I have over 30 photos in my myspace, but I’m a little nervous about giving my URL away. I WILL, however, post several on this thread if someone will explain to me how to do such a thing.
Regarding the photos... I like http://www.tinypic.com/
The code for posting the photo is provided after the upload, one merely needs to save it (perhaps in one big file with the rest of the graphics info) and keep track of which is which.