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Tag: Archaeology

No Thanks, I Had a Big Lunch

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Mills

Sometimes blog postings spin out of control. Last year I wrote three posts about the Donner Party and the way that their history had been captured in Wikipedia. My ruminations about the Donners, who might or might not have gotten eaten in their camp, and the nature of historical knowledge online have, been some of…

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What’s for dinner (cont’d)

Posted on May 17, 2006June 10, 2011 by Mills

In two previous posts (1) (2), I explored what happened when the historical archaeologists Julie Schlabitsky and Kelly Dixon used modern forensic archaeology techniques to investigate what happened at the Donner family encampment. I also described what happened to my edits of the Wikipedia entry on the Donner Party (which has now been edited 34…

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What’s for dinner (cont’d)

Posted on May 5, 2006June 10, 2011 by Mills

My edit of the Donner Party entry in the Wikipedia lasted not quite five days. As I wrote in an earlier post, I changed one sentence in the entry to reflect the work of Kelly Dixon and Julie Schlabitsky on what happened in the Donner family camp. The first paragraph of the entry I read…

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What’s for dinner?

Posted on April 28, 2006June 10, 2011 by Mills

One of the enduring (and horrific) tales of the expansion of the American Republic westward is the story of the ill-fated Donner Party. A group of more than 80 emigrants to California, the Donner Party set out for the West Coast in 1846, but made the mistake of following what was known as the “Hastings…

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