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Discover Kentucky Archaeology
- auditor_3d 4y agoA new website that showcases 120 archaeologically significant sites in Kentucky,USA
- virgulino 4y agoGeoblocking? I am in Brazil and all I see is this: The request is blocked. 0kEE0YwAAAADSrOoEHVCAQrfsFyH2VJaQR1JVMzBFREdFMDgyMQBjZTgwMzljZS04NTZjLTRkYzktYjgwZC02MzlhMDg1MmY4Mzk=
- twic 4y agoBrit here, also blocked, with a similar message, but to be fair, if that website had any good ancient artefacts on it i'd be over there to steal them in a flash, so maybe it's for the best.
- robga 4y agoInteresting that the apparent base64 encoding doesnt decode to anything sensible. Sort of thing you'd see on a CTF challenge ... What's the encoding and/or content all about?
- r0n22 4y agoSame getting blocked in Canada
- randlet 4y agoSame. Too bad as I recently spent a couple of days motorcycling through Kentucky and there were some beautiful parts of that state.
- Namari 4y agoOr the UK
- jessaustin 4y ago
- SoundsLikeAScam 4y agoThat response doesn’t sound right, this reads more like a stereotype of Kentuckians. Can you back up your claims? I find it hard to believe a government official would respond so unprofessionally.
- rufusroflpunch 4y ago> I know Kentuckians aren’t the smartest This is more offensive than the obvious joke you're responding to. Unless you're participating in jokeception.
- SoundsLikeAScam 4y agoSorry, my comment wasn’t helpful in the least.
- mmmpop 4y agoIt’s rude but it has a grain of truth. Now it’s silly to think that Kentucky is incapable of producing mind-bogglingly talented people, but you’re far less likely to encounter them outside of probably 3 concentrated population areas. I went to college in Lexington and there are a great deal of very smart, very motivated people and the average person you encounter daily can hold a reasonably intelligent conversation. But in fairness to the comment, head east and you run into populations where the average intelligence is a dramatic departure from the average population of your Madisons or Boulders of the world. How much is nature vs nurture is up for debate but I think you’d be kidding yourself if you claimed it was strictly one of the two and not some combination.
- phlyingpenguin 4y agoPlease keep in mind that real people live in Kentucky and joke stereotyping it as you have is both unhelpful to progress and downright hurtful to those of us trying to make it a better place to live.
- kadenwolff 4y agoSame
- brudgers 4y agoSince it is a government website, I suspect that foreign IP have a strong historical correlation with mischief. Particularly because mostly forgotten webpages like this one are an attractive nuisance for black hats, banning foreign IP’s was probably a best-practice argument. There’s also the possibility that a sudden uptick in activity (HN slashsot effect) triggered an internal mechanism. And politically, I suspect there wouldn’t be a lot of pushback to any of it. But I could be wrong.
- kennend3 4y agoout of interest i tried the states main site https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx works just fine from Canada?
- brudgers 4y agoDoesn’t surprise me that the portal isn’t geofenced because it is likely to be well maintained, monitored, and funded for business reasons. Stare Archeology websites don’t have the same incentives for IT attention…I mean the one here isn’t even very “Web2.0”.
- CSSer 4y agoWow! Very weird to find my home state and birthplace on HN this morning. Some of these places are even new to me. I hadn’t heard of Crump’s sink, for example, which seems to be a more recent find.
- ramesh31 4y agoMammoth Cave, included in this list, also happens to be the longest known cave system in the world [0]. [0] https://www.doi.gov/blog/mammoth-cave-explore-worlds-longest-cave#:~:text=a%2Dkind%20adventure%3A-,1.,600%20miles%20in%20its%20system https://www.doi.gov/blog/mammoth-cave-explore-worlds-longest....
- sprkwd 4y agoBut watch out! Kentucky Cave Goblins!! https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/61-american-national-parks/legends-of-the-national-parks-mammoth-caves-kentucky-goblin https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/61-am...
- aklemm 4y agoWould love to see a Google Map of the sites included.
- dan353hehe 4y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20220928125007/https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/default.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20220928125007/https://archaeolo... For anyone geoblocked
- OedipusRex 4y agoMammoth Cave is worth the visit if you’re in the area.
- mod 4y agoWent as a kid, it was badass.
- OedipusRex 4y agoI was there a few years ago and the power went out for a few seconds and everyone just froze in place lol
- kadenwolff 4y agoIf you're interested in the magic of Kentucky: http://kentuckyroutezero.com/ http://kentuckyroutezero.com/
- nulbyte 4y agoThis is such a fascinating and engaging game! I don't recall where I found it, but I definitely agree.
- WorldMaker 4y agoRelatedly, the original Colossal Cave Adventure, often known simply as "Adventure", which was a very early videogame and inspired so many others that followed (including the Zork franchise and Kentucky Route Zero) was loosely inspired by the creators' caving expeditions in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave (National Park) and some of the rooms and room descriptions in Colossal Cave Adventure even match up with real Mammoth Cave rooms. (Though my attempts to use the magic word XYZZY to shortcut to find Dragon hoarded gold at the real Mammoth Cave seem to always fail.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
- SquibblesRedux 4y agoI once held a company retreat at Mammoth Cave. Although the company went bust, we did many really cool things along the way.
- kevmo 4y agoKentucky rules.
- dlyons 4y agoSitting in Louisville, KY hacking away on some Python and Typescript this morning. AMA.
- phlyingpenguin 4y agoWhich is better: Wick's or Danny Mac's?
- ducharmdev 4y agoNever been to Wick's but Danny Mac's is heaven
- dpcx 4y agoAlso Louisvillian, Danny Macs imho.
- WorldMaker 4y agoI don't think Wick's has ever been in the top spot in Louisville pizza. The last Impellizerri's just forever closed (in N'Albany), sadly, but Bearno's was always better than Wick's. (People are welcome to fight me on that. Wick's gets higher rated in people's heads sometimes simply because of its proximity to bars and usefulness as drunk food. Take off the drunk goggles and its not as good as you think.) Then there's all the recent up-and-comers like The Post.
- silisili 4y agoYou're right...Wick's has always been overrated(and overpriced). Bearno's is probably my favorite pizza ever. I've since moved all over the US, and haven't found a damn thing that comes close in taste or style. It's definitely a love/hate relationship...you either love a billion tiny meatballs, or don't.
- WorldMaker 4y agoI've had a weird time explaining "Louisville Style" pizza to outsiders or that Louisville is a bit of a "pizza nexus" where all the styles of pizza meet and mingle. No matter the style of pizza that I want, I can find someone to sell it to me. But the "home" style that Bearno's/Wick's/Boomboz/Impellizerri's (RIP) build I don't know where else to find that and describing it is tough. ("It seems thin like New York style, but it is thicker than that because it has to hold all the toppings not just cheese and maybe pepperoni, something truly supreme like half a deli and a full salad. Yet it also isn't crispy like a cracker like Cincinnati style or [shiver] St. Louis style.") I found a pizza place one time in DC that was really close. I don't know if I could find it again. I've also lived in pizza deserts on the West Coast where the choices were nothing but Papa Johns and Pizza Hut for miles (both headquartered in Louisville, which is its own weird thing; truly a "pizza nexus"). So many cities think they know what pizza is and what the best kind is. Not everyone believes me that I think Louisville figured it out: the best kind of pizza is always whatever kind of pizza that you want today (feel like Chicago style or Detroit style or New York style today? go for it!), but the second best kind is a hybrid inspired by all of those and has to go toe to toe with all of those that I don't think exists anywhere but Louisville. I don't expect many people to believe me that have never lived in Louisville, and despite the big power chains being from Louisville, there's nobody who has felt like exporting "our" pizza and no one even knows there is a "Louisville style". It's fascinating.
- mauvehaus 4y agoIf you're going to visit the Florence archaeological site[0], you may as well go see the famous water tower[1]: [0] https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Florence.aspx https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Florence.aspx [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower
- mrtranscendence 4y agoI was born and raised in Florence. I've always been fascinated by how widely the water tower is known; as far away as Boston I've had someone remark on it upon learning that I'm from there. I'm not sure Florence has all that much else to recommend it, mind you. Of all the suburban towns surrounding Cincinnati, it's definitely one of them.
- eutropia 4y agoFlorence has one of my favorite roadside eateries: the Quaker Steak & Lube! (known for their chicken wings, lol) Any time we drive to the Ikea in Cinci from KY, we'll get hot wings on the way home.
- mod 4y agoWhat makes the wings so good? (My business is known for its chicken wings as well, just comparing notes!)
- mauvehaus 4y agoI would submit that they actually aren't that good on an absolute scale. Relative to other widely available chain wings, perhaps, and I suspect that's why they have such a strong following. Mind you, I haven't had them in years and now live almost 7 hours from the nearest Quaker Steak and Lube. My recollection may be flawed.
- mod 4y ago
- daveevad 4y agoAs someone who grew up in Kentucky but now works in the Bay Area, what is the tech scene like back home these days?
- nwsm 4y agoI worked for one of the big corporations in Louisville. Huge companies use lots of technologies but .NET, Java, React, SPA frameworks, Docker + Kubernetes, and cloud migrations are the norm.
- reportingsjr 4y agoIn northern KY it's about as you would expect. Limited, but there are a handful of companies doing interesting things.
- primeradical 4y agoLex here, not bad for remote work, low cost of living, access to surrounding metro areas (Lou, Cinci), and Lex usually has something going on. Just got access to gigabit fiber so you're not disconnected from the rest of the world either.
- throwaway168519 4y agoAlso in Lexington doing remote work - don't know too much about the local tech scene. Seems rather limited and the best option is to work remotely for a higher wage and take advantage of the lower COL in the area.
- WorldMaker 4y agoSame as it ever was: most local "big" tech employers (and VCs) still hugely (and sometimes myopically, looking at you local VCs) focused on Health Insurance or are otherwise Healthcare adjacent. But yeah, also still a lovely place for remote work, if you can get it, given the cost of living/quality of life.
- ducharmdev 4y agoLots of .NET
- kathysgeek 4y agoFor geology lovers: https://kgs.uky.edu/kygeode/geomap/ https://kgs.uky.edu/kygeode/geomap/ Two meteor craters are visible as "broken windows". Middlesboro crater in the extreme southeast and Jeptha Knob near Frankfort (north central).
- kennend3 4y agoGot to love Geoblocking, especially this one. what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site? Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal? Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.
- bcook 4y ago> what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site? Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?
- mod 4y agoWould it be common for a local government within a country to confirm to the law of another country? Is there a compelling reason besides being friendly? Like treaties or something?
- kennend3 4y agoA state tourism site complying with GDPR shoudn't be that challenging: The UK GDPR sets out seven key principles: - Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. - Purpose limitation. - Data minimisation. - Accuracy. - Storage limitation. - Integrity and confidentiality (security) - Accountability. Dont keep track of any user info and you should be OK? Many of the blocked countries dont have GDPR regulations, so there is that. There is also the vast majority of US government sites which are not geoblocked. https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx - works just fine from Canada?
- chasd00 4y agoi bet you whoever wrote the rfp for the website copy/pasted most of it from some other rfp that listed "prevent login from outside the US" as a requirement since that's needed to comply with some regulations for apps storing data. Even though there's no login the contractor shrugged and "prevented _access_ from outside the US". I'll bet you lunch that's exactly what happened. edit: and i'll add that the team who put the site together is long gone and the people who maintain content (if any) have no idea what geoblocking even is. So don't bother sending them an email...
- glonq 4y agoIf the official slogan for Kentucky archaeology is not "go deeper with KY" then I am disappointed.
- leetrout 4y agoI am from Eastern KY and have some additional things y'all may find interesting... Louisa KY was home of the first Needle Dam (and locks) in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam Torchlight KY produced "torchlight coal" which made its way from Eastern KY to major rivers all up and down the East coast. And a very small, "wide spot in the road" community, Aflex KY was once a model coal camp and had a lot of conveniences. See two PDFs in my drive for articles on each of these subjects from a trade publication called The Black Diamond https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NDl85xvgmyiqVbq8dTe4cH-Ual4hZr7e?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NDl85xvgmyiqVbq8dTe4... Coal mining funded everything in Eastern KY and you can learn more about "coal camps" and the history at https://coalcampusa.com/eastky/eastky.htm https://coalcampusa.com/eastky/eastky.htm The Pikeville cut-through was the second largest earth moving project in the western hemisphere -- behind the Panama Canal -- until the big dig in Boston. Still in the top 3! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through We have the grand canyon of the south at breaks interstate park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaks_Interstate_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaks_Interstate_Park Home to one of the most famous feuds ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud We have our fair share of superfund sites... couple are interesting: We had a huge superfund site as famous as love canal... "Valley of the Drums" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums We have a nuclear waste dump that had / has plutonium disposed there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats Full list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Kentucky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Ken...
- maxhallinan 4y agoOhio, Kentucky's neighbor to the north, also has a rich archaeological record. The Ohio Archaeological Society's journal is archived here: https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/55832 https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/55832 Fascinating read for anyone interested in this topic.
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