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Sunday, October 14th, 2018 Alive 17,337 days

Anasazi ruins

One room of a 1,400 room Anasazi complex. Thereʼs another one a mile away thatʼs 1,100 rooms; but archaeologists re-buried that one after studying it to prevent it from being damaged.

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Friday, October 12th, 2018 Alive 17,335 days

Darcie holding a shard of Anasazi pottery

The shard of pottery Darcie found was painted sometime between the Battle of Hastings and the Black Death.

That doesnʼt explain why sheʼs holding it like a diseased frog.

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Friday, October 12th, 2018 Alive 17,335 days

A sign reading “Caution: Area inhabited by venomous reptiles and insects.”

Strange. They have the same sign at my lawyerʼs office.

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Do not touch

Friday, October 12th, 2018 Alive 17,335 days

Darcie holding a shard of pottery she found on the ground

Here we see Darcie holding a piece of pottery she found at an abandoned Anasazi city. A few days later we learned that the Navajo believe touching Anasazi pottery shards is super duper bad luck.

There really should be a sign or something.

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Rock on

Friday, October 12th, 2018 Alive 17,335 days

Rocks near Winslow, Arizona

The Anasazi had all kinds of minerals from copper to aluminum to uranium out the wazoo, but never learned to make metal tools, or even arrowheads.

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Stop stalling

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 Alive 17,332 days

A techno-spa bathroom lighting scheme

If the menʼs room has mood lighting, you might be in an Arizona state park. Or a Hungarian disco. One or the other.

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Lido Dido

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 Alive 17,332 days

A sign warning of rattlesnakes

I wonder what a “Human” icon would look like, if snakes could make signs.

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