[Texascavers] Calling all old ASS!

2014-01-30 Thread Chase, Allison Christine
Howdy!
ASS is turning 40 this year, and to celebrate we are having a 40 year reunion. 
There will be food, beer, a raffle, ASS merchandise for sale, stories and 
pictures of ASS through the ages, speleolympics, a chug and slide, and of 
course a campfire. We'd like to have as many old ASS as possible. Obviously 
most will have left our email list by now, and we don't have as many contacts 
to old members as we'd like. If you know anybody that used to be part of ASS, 
PLEASE forward this email to them. If you used to be a member, here is our 
facebook page for the event and an online invitation to fill out.  The more 
ASSes we have (current and old), the better it will turn out.

https://www.facebook.com/events/474489252661714/?fref=ts

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1d4u8PdoInUIJR9PrW94JSfBPftRCYWg-cp5kGpGoHRQ/viewform

Thanks and gig em!
-Allison Chase

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texascavers Digest 30 Jan 2014 17:40:36 -0000 Issue 1922

2014-01-30 Thread texascavers-digest-help

texascavers Digest 30 Jan 2014 17:40:36 - Issue 1922

Topics (messages 23347 through 23353):

Lascaux Cave exhibit in Houston highly recommended
23347 by: Speleosteele.aol.com

Qesem Cave
23348 by: David
23349 by: Geary Schindel

Lava cave related
23350 by: David

OK, who took it?!
23351 by: Louise Power

Re: [greater_houston_grotto] Fwd: WNS Spreads into Arkansas
23352 by: Julia Germany

Calling all old ASS!
23353 by: Chase, Allison Christine

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Hello, fellow Texas cavers,
 
Last Saturday Diana Tomchick, Roger and Candice Moore, and I enjoyed  the 
Lascaux Cave exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural History. My  advice is 
to not miss this wonderful opportunity. 
 
http://www.hmns.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=651Itemid=
683
 
Lascaux Cave has been called the Sistine Chapel of Prehistory.  It's  
utterly astounding how well done these 19,000 year old paintings are. 
 
The exhibit will be in Houston until March 23rd. I may go again before it  
leaves.
 
Good cavin',
 
Bill Steele
 
Additional related links:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMeMCkk2Ho
 
http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/441789672/Scenes_from_the_Stone_Age_Th
e_Cave_Paintings_of_Lascaux_
 
https://www.google.com/search?q=lascaux+cave+houstontbm=ischtbo=usource=u
nivsa=Xei=qm3oUrnCEsP_kAfJxYHICgved=0CFkQsAQbiw=1335bih=578---End Message---
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There is a story in the news this week about an archealogical dig in
Israel.

These researcher's theory is that this spot proves humans cooked meats
as far back as 300,000 years ago.

This is interesting for several reasons.

To me, the fact that we have a spot in a cave where something like
21,478 generations ago, my ancestors might have been in this cave sitting
there roasting a pig, celebrating the solistice or the birth of a new baby, or
something fun, is an exciting image to picture.I wonder what there names
were, and how many of them sat around the fire, and how cold was it and
were they happy or frightened. Was there danger lurking outside the cave
such as large predators or war, or ghetto neighbors l like the ones that live
next door to me.Imagine living your whole life near that cave,
never having to
have used your brain to calculate your taxes or to watch tv, or living
in a world
where the nearby population was probably only in the thousands, if not the
hundreds.   I am guessing their total vocabulary was only a few thousand words
to memorize, and since they didn't have to memorize anything, their brains were
free to daydream and count the millions of stars in the sky.

I wonder if anyone is still related to these cave dwellers, or did their lineage
become extinct ?

My feeling is they spent a lot of time pondering whether the chicken came
before the egg, or why the sun and moon are round, and other natural questions
that we too talk about while sitting around the campfire.   Surely,
they had some
kind of humor and told jokes, and sang songs and beat on something with sticks
to make percussion sounds.  I bet the old timers would say, back
in the good
ole days, we didn't have a wheel, you younguns got it made,  etc.

David Locklear
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David,

In our hectic lives, we sometimes forget to stop and think about how life might 
have been and to ponder these questions. 

Early man was free to roam and to wonder of the magic of nature - with an 
entire planet to explore.  

Well said.

Geary

-Original Message-
From: David [mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:59 AM
To: CaveTex
Subject: [Texascavers] Qesem Cave

There is a story in the news this week about an archealogical dig in Israel.

These researcher's theory is that this spot proves humans cooked meats as far 
back as 300,000 years ago.

This is interesting for several reasons.

To me, the fact that we have a spot in a cave where something like
21,478 generations ago, my ancestors might have been in this cave sitting there 
roasting a pig, celebrating the solistice or the birth of a new baby, or
something fun, is an exciting image to picture.I wonder what there names
were, and how many of them sat around the fire, and how cold was it and
were they happy or frightened. Was there danger lurking outside the cave
such as large predators or war, or ghetto neighbors l like the ones that live
next door to me.Imagine living your whole life near that cave,
never having to
have used your brain to calculate your taxes or to watch tv, or living in a 
world where the nearby population was probably only in the