You spend your whole archeological career trying to recreate an old fort then..

Deliguy

Deliguy

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suddenly a random painting from the era shows up...

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and makes your 35 years of work obsolete.

'I looked at the painting and realized I'd been there' | KVAL CBS 13 - News, Weather and Sports - Eugene, OR - Eugene, Oregon | Local & Regional News


Way to go bro!


Archaeologist David Brauner has spent much of the last 35 years reconstructing the history of Fort Hoskins, a Civil War-era Army outpost in the Oregon Coast Range that existed for less than a decade before it was decommissioned, dismantled and consigned to the past.
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Last fall, following a long chain of improbable coincidences, he obtained a copy of an oil painting from about 1860 that shows the fort in its heyday
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This does not sound like a profitable career in the first place... He was better off pushing teh berriez and maybe now this painting will give him a swift kick in the keister to go and do it. ;)
 
lukep said:
This does not sound like a profitable career in the first place... He was better off pushing teh berriez and maybe now this painting will give him a swift kick in the keister to go and do it. ;)
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Some people do not work for making big bucks. Look at those guys on DP.
 
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