https://web.archive.org/web/20220928125007/https://archaeolo...

For anyone geoblocked

Wow! 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.

Mammoth 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....

If you're interested in the magic of Kentucky:

http://kentuckyroutezero.com/

Mammoth Cave is worth the visit if you’re in the area.

If 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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower

Sitting in Louisville, KY hacking away on some Python and Typescript this morning. AMA.

As someone who grew up in Kentucky but now works in the Bay Area, what is the tech scene like back home these days?

For geology lovers: 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).

Ohio, 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 Fascinating read for anyone interested in this topic.

A new website that showcases 120 archaeologically significant sites in Kentucky,USA

I 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

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/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

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

We have the grand canyon of the south at 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

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

We have a nuclear waste dump that had / has plutonium disposed there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats

Full list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Ken...

Would love to see a Google Map of the sites included.

Kentucky rules.

Geoblocking? I am in Brazil and all I see is this:

  The request is blocked.
  
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Got 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.

If the official slogan for Kentucky archaeology is not "go deeper with KY" then I am disappointed.