As you read this, your home is suddenly and instantly buried and preserved by mysterious forces, not to be discovered for several centuries.
One day, the great-great-great-great-great-etc-grandson of Indiana Jones and his colleagues walk thru your front door. During the course of doing whatever it is archeologists do, one suddenly calls out “Indy!! Come see this!!!”
What is it and why has it generated such excitement? Share a photo if you dare.
In my dining room, there stands a hutch with the top half being a mostly-glass display cabinet. In among the carafes, cut glass dishes and fancy tea cups, there sits a shoe. The shoe has assorted macaroni glued all over it. It has been spray-painted silver. Inside of the shoe is florist’s foam and into that has been stuck an arrangement of silk flowers. Amongst the flowers are macaroni-covered numbers 2 and 5.
My youngest sister made it for my husband and me for our 25th anniversary. Lest I feel too special, she made one in gold for our parents’ 50th, in the wedding colors of my daughter’s short-lived marriage, and for other people for various occasions. I cannot attest to my sister’s sanity, but I’m pretty sure several hundred years from now, this item will make for some head-scratching.
“A house with beds for all, and yet two children have chosen to sleep on the floor! Was it a punishment? Some intimation of the disaster ahead? Waiting for the end of the world?..”
There’s an entire miniature village placed on a table. The village is adorned with decorations that Dr. Snodgrass believes may be related to some sort of seasonal religious festival. Possibly this is some sort of scale model used to plan religious festivals. Or perhaps it was used by one of the many so-called ‘terrorist organizations’ common to that era for use as a planning tool in organizing attacks. More contextual study will be needed to better determine how this artifact was used…
Several large boxes of miscellaneous computer hardware, none of which are relevant to any of the computers in the house. Did they have some sentimental or nostalgic value?
Hm, before it got burnt, I had clothing and brand new self made items that would have been found in a iron age Celtic roundhouse - part of my historic recreation hobby, made for my ‘sheep to shawl’ project. I had a Huldremose gown dyed with plants found in my woods and from wool from my own sheep, warp weighted loom built from wood cut on the farm and tied with leather strapping made from sheep hide from the sheep we kept and weights made from our claybank, several drop spindles with clay whorls from the clay bed on the farm, a cauldron also made from the clay bed, assorted tools made from bone used in the weaving and sewing process from the sheep we killed as part of the project, though I admit the tablets used in weaving the trim were modern cardboard … so all the items could be ‘fingerprinted’ chemically to about 5 acres and almost nothing modern included.
As an odd sort of note, I watch Jas Townsend’s youtube feed a lot and he had a small [going by what I have seen, about a 2 meter by 4 or 5 metre] “German Kitchen” set to film in, I absolutely LUST after one of my own, though I shudder at the cost of adding another structure to the property taxes at the farm sigh but I really really would love that cooking hearth. And the kitchen goods … I could imagine the conversation about a space that is half 17th century kitchen and half 21st century film studio =)
This is a very odd pair of shoes. The bottom of the left one is coated with a gripping rubber surface, but the bottom of the right one is pure Teflon. Perhaps they used the right one for cooking eggs…
“Well, by the quantity of the electronic gear and the minimal effort at cleanliness, we’re looking at the lair of an early 21-st century geek bachelor. I admit, I can’t quite fit all the stuffed teddy bears into the profile. They’re not even nerdy teddy bears…”
“My God. It’s a petrified Prolecanitida in near perfect condition. If they could build homes like this in the high Triassic period, it changes everything we thought we knew about how these Home Sapiens Sapiens developed.”
Look, Indy, an a-bomb shelter that seems to have been stocked with food. The shelves seem to in the way though. Plus there’s a smaller one on top. Must have been for a child or pet.
The mate to FCM’s shoe. Future archeologists will puzzle over the distance between the two shoes and surmise that we were both part of some weird shoe worship cult.
