Archaeological study of a hippy commune? - Really?

[astro]

Groovy artifacts from 1960s Marin County commune sorted

You know you’re old when archaeologists are excavating and studying stuff that happened during your lifetime.

I need to sit down.

They are the stuff of memories for Noelle Olompali-Barton, who was 16 when she and her showbiz mom plunged into California’s new counterculture, retreating to this once-private ranch north of San Francisco to establish one of the first hippie communes.

The teenager baked bread to give away in Golden Gate Park. She sat with the Grateful Dead under an oak tree for a famous 1969 album photo.

For two intense, often drug-laced years, the commune nourished utopian dreams – and some bad trips, too, she said.

But never in her wildest hallucinations did the teen imagine that more than 40 years later, she would assist an archaeologist in identifying macrame headbands, old records and other commune artifacts retrieved from the abandoned ruins of her former home

[silenus]

Ommmmmmmm. Ommmmmmmm.

Fucking A, I’m old.

[horsetech]

@astro

You know you’re old when archaeologists are excavating and studying stuff that happened during your lifetime.

I need to sit down.

The Pleistocene called – they want you to come back.

• cheeky youngster

<duck and run>

[chappachula]

umm…the problem here isnt that you are old. The problem is that somebody doesn’t know how to define “Archeologist”…

see, it’s simple:
People who study ancient civilizations and read Cuneiform tablets are called archeologists…
People who dig up macrame headbands and read Greatful Dead lyrics are called “ex-hippies”.

not that there’s anything wrong with that, though

[Kyla]

I’m stuck on the use of “Olompali” as a name. Olompali State Park is in Marin County. I’ve driven past it approximately eighteen trillion times. That is like, the single most hippie name I have ever heard. Awesome.

ETA: …and then I learned to read the article before posting. Whatever, it’s still funny to me.

[horsetech]

@chappachula

umm…the problem here isnt that you are old. The problem is that somebody doesn’t know how to define “Archeologist”…

see, it’s simple:
People who study ancient civilizations and read Cuneiform tablets are called archeologists..
People who dig up macrame headbands and read Greatful Dead lyrics are called “ex-hippies”.

not that there’s anything wrong with that, though

I’m not sure about the “ex” part, though. How about “nostalgic maturing hippies”?

[prettydorky]

two things.

1. Popular comment from the article:
   My daughters educational field trip to Angel Island is being canceled due to budget cuts, while my tax dollars are paying archeologists to dig up roach clips!?!?

– gollumoozh

2. Isn’t it archaeologists?