It was another Sunday afternoon reading at Goerings Bookstore - this one with an author whose books I've actually used for research on the current novel. I'm so lucky to live here in Gainesville.
Barbara Purdy is a professor emerita of 
Anthropology at the University of Florida. She says at her, as she put it, "advanced age," she only wants to study what she wants to. Which, besides bog bodies (of course), is the question of when humans first came to the Americas.
It was a packed room, full of knowledge of all types, and I handled the cast of an atlatl hook and learned about the difference in durability between bone and ivory - which means it is possible that my 1528 character might still have an ivory pin from 10,000 years ago. Whew.
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