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October 10, 2005
These Are Few My Favorite Things
Shirley and I are in the midst of a top to bottom house cleaning. Since we haven't moved in thirty years, I have collect many valuable treasures and she has collected a good deal of useless junk. One of the tasks that always goes with such a clean up is deciding what to keep, what to give to Goodwill and what to throw away. Another thing we are doing is photographing all our treasures and junk as part of a re-inventorying project.
Among the things we are keeping is this guy.
It is a full-scale model of La Ferrassie I Skull, a Homo neanderthalensis skull. The original is in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. I got it from Skulls Unlimited on the web. A few years ago I had finished working my way through An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy by Leslie Aiello and Christopher Dean and wanted a more touchy feely introduction to human evolutionary anatomy so I got good ol' La Ferrassie I to study. Michael H. Day's Guide to Fossil Man says,
The tools and fauna suggest an Upper Pleistocene date for the remains, probably the Fourth Glacial period . . ., possibly > 38,000 B.P.
During a visit shortly after I got him, our daughter-in-law asked Shirley how she could allow such a thing in the house. While this was a joke, I'm sure she is not the only visitor who had the same question. The model sits on top of a combination audio cabinet and bookcase along with this Middle Bronze I age pot that I acquired during my first visit to Israel. It's real.
Without argument we also decided to keep the two HO scale model buildings made by the only grandfather I ever knew. The church is pictured here.
We also have a small house. While not my biological grandfather, he had helped raise my mother and played the role of grandfather to perfection. He was also the consummate craftsman. When I was very small, I called him Crap'pa. He made many of these small scale buildings. One of his projects was to reproduce all the buildings from the Calico ghost town here in California. This very large project was on display for many years at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. I don't know where it is now but would sure like to know.
The fact is we are keeping just about everything.
Posted by DuaneSmith at October 10, 2005 01:25 PM | Read more on Odds and Ends |
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