Archaeological Adventures

My friend Kristin sent me this e-mail and I thought it was too funny not to share:

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: 'California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'

One week later, The Louisville Courier Journal, a local newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky, reported the following: After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Lexington, Kentucky, Bubba Schultz, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Kentuckyhad already gone wireless.

Archaeologists everywhere are proud.