Hard. The Colorado Plateau is covered with chert, a glassy rock that is really really good for making tools, making very sharp edges. You find there are pieces of chert all over the place and you can still cut your skin open very quickly with it and its been sitting out in the open. Where does chert come from . Its a marine rock thats mostly silica. You find it in these layers, sandstone layers. If you are especially in a marine or water environment, you will find this layer of chert. Its in all colors, purple, green, red, blue. Its a beautiful rock. One thing i wanted to ask you, the review in the paper recently on sunday said that your book is different from all the other books about the anastazi because you brought out some of the nonflattering parts of their culture like violence. How did you conclude that they were a violent culture . Well, i didnt necessarily conclude they were a violent culture, i just concluded there was violence in their culture. The evidence is very clear whe
u.s. for the construction of railroads used to transport sugar cane to the sugar plantations. that was at the end of the 19th century. and then at the beginning of the 20th century, we re talking 1902, 1910, before odono that i mentioned before, this man who gave his name to he was very proud of this lighthouse. the cubans offer hospitality to general alexander alejandro o reilly. he rose through the ranks of the spanish army. the spanish sent alexander o reilly to cuba to form a militia. he was appointed governor of louisiana and head of the army later on. he arrived in august, 1769, and took formal possession of louisiana for spain. think of new orleans and cuba, in particular havana, governors there were also in cuba so there was all this traveling from one city to another because later when i got my ph.d. from tulaine university and i went to the irish channel. it s interesting, the irish history connected with new orleans. so the o reilly family has been in louisiana f
and so travel with me and let s go to havana, cuba, and to know a little bit about the irish, the few irish that went to cuba, in particular to havana. i want you to know that on the left side of the entrance to the havana harbor, there is a well-known fortress, el moro. there is a lighthouse there and the moro has become a image of cuban nationality and in particular havana. in that lighthouse you find, you read an when you enter the havana harbor, you find an irish name. that lighthouse was known for many years as the odono lighthouse. who was this person, odono the man that oversaw the project of the lighthouse in 1844 and he was a governor of cuba from 1843 to 48, but he was a spanish man of irish origin and irish ancestry, a descendant of the chieftan of the ticanelles. he is spanish and irish together. if we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the spanish roy
(applause). . thank you and thank you to all of you for being here today in such a fantastic day, beautiful, sunny bay area. also i want to thank you, hilary flynn, the director of the irish festival for this invitation. let s celebrate the irish in the americas. i put a title to my conversation with you today, take the journey with me, and i wanted to read you an irish proverb that i like it very much because it s the way the history of myself, the history of my family. the longest road out is the shortest road home. and so travel with me and let s go to havana, cuba, and to know a little bit about the irish, the few irish that went to cuba, in particular to havana. i want you to know that on the left side of the entrance to the havana harbor, there is a well-known fortress, el moro. there is a lighthouse there and the moro has become a image of cuban nationality and in particular havana. in that lighthouse you find, you read an when you enter the havana har
. thank you and thank you to all of you for being here today in such a fantastic day, beautiful, sunny bay area. also i want to thank you, hilary flynn, the director of the irish festival for this invitation. let s celebrate the irish in the americas. i put a title to my conversation with you today, take the journey with me, and i wanted to read you an irish proverb that i like it very much because it s the way the history of myself, the history of my family. the longest road out is the shortest road home. and so travel with me and let s go to havana, cuba, and to know a little bit about the irish, the few irish that went to cuba, in particular to havana. i want you to know that on the left side of the entrance to the havana harbor, there is a well-known fortress, el moro. there is a lighthouse there and the moro has become a image of cuban nationality and in particular havana. in that lighthouse you find, you read an when you enter the havana harbor, you find an irish n