Five years earlier, on those same dry lake shores, I had happened upon the cremated remains of a young woman, now known as Mungo Lady.
Fishermen would then hang the fish to dry on shore.
The original excavators proposed that hominin activity, including hunting and butchery, occurred on a dry lake shore and was followed by a rapid sedimentation of organic deposits that embedded and preserved the artifacts.
At various periods in that time warm, shallow seas, streams, ponds and lakes, vast deserts, and dry near-shore environments covered the area.
The formations exposed in the Zion area were deposited as sediment in very different environments: The warm, shallow (sometimes advancing or retreating) sea of the Kaibab and Moenkopi formations; Streams, ponds, and lakes of the Chinle, Moenave, and Kayenta formations; The vast desert of the Navajo and Temple Cap formations; and The dry near-shore environment of the Carmel Formation.
IT'S easy to knock the New York street pretzel — tasteless as "Jersey Shore," dry as a vacant lot in August, tough as a water bug.
Once the nation's credit shores dried up, there were few buyers who could reasonably afford the inflated prices, which quickly began dropping once inventory grew and buyers stayed home.
From his residence in Cambridge, he praises the English emphasis on social cooperation and personal integrity and contrasts them with America where "You must wave, you must cheer, you must push with the irresistible crowd; otherwise you will feel like a traitor, a soulless outcast, a deserted ship high and dry on the shore … .
Sovereignty of the entire island passed to Great Britain with the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, although the French were granted some rights to dry fish on shore.
"This is paradise," Patience said when he was back on shore and dry.
