No More ASAA :(

[uniface]

Doc Gramly's American Socity fir Amateur Archaeology is no more, it seems. Or at least the ASAA internet identifier is now owned by an accounting business. Fortunately there's an article link to stuff from the old site kept as a sidebar.

If you're reading this, Thanks So Much, Doc !!!!!!!

 

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You can see a lot of his work on the following Research Gate Link. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_Gramly

 

[joshuaream]

It might be temporary. It looks like one of the "pirate" sites that parks on expired domains and takes possession. They just track web registrations that have traffic, content, and are set to expire, and register the domain... The hope is that people will buy their domain back. A guy bought the google.com domain for $12 when they let the registration lapse, he pointed out the flaw to them and didn't pretend he could keep it. But lots of other generic domains have been lost because someone didn't renew their registration.

To make it somewhat valid the pirate create a business, and try to make it seem legitimate. American Society - Amateur Archaeology - ASAA site and branding is likely different enough that Doc could file a claim for the intellectual property, but depending on where the company is based, it could be an expensive fight that just drags on. (Basically if the pirates are in India, and won't respond to anything it could take months to get it back.)

 

[Charl]

I am a member of the New England chapter of ASAA. We have had three Zoom meetings in recent months. At the last Zoom meeting, last month, Mike filled us in on a couple of recent research projects, including the discovery of the source of a very interesting lithic at a highly remote site in Nevada. I think we’ve all enjoyed the Zoom meetings, and look forward to in person meetings again at some point in 2021. There may also be an opportunity to work at a Paleo site in the Ct. River Valley next summer.

As for the ASAA site, we had been told awhile ago that, due to financial considerations, it could no longer be maintained.

Some of the topics discussed at our last ASAA New England chapter Zoom meeting:

1. Dr. MIKE GRAMLY DISCUSSION: Dr. Gramly will be discussing the recent fieldwork at the Hole-in-the-Wall lithic source, Churchill Co., NV, which is the "cover story" essay for the Jan., 2021 issue of Central States Archaeology Journal.
2. Third, Dr. Gramly will be mentioning the progress of his new book about man/proboscidean interactions.
   Fourth, an update on newly obtained C-14 dates from the ASAA work in 2015 at the Sugarloaf Paleo Site.