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Dear AsturianUS,
This is Ana here. Thanks for your nice words and for your congratulations, about the award and about our webpage http://www.accuca.conectia.es although I must apologize because this has not been updated for a long time now.
I shall be in NY in march for the Award Ceremony and giving a few talks, if you live nearby perhaps we can meet.
My name in this forum is Ana Cris. I am an archaeologist from Asturias, although I did my MA and my PhD in London (Natural History Museum, British Museum) and read it in the University in Oviedo. Now I have been in Arizona for some 3 years, I work at the Institute of Human Origins http://www.becominghuman.org (Arizona State University). A small bio follows.
"Ana Cristina Pinto-Llona is a Spanish archaeologist who spent much of her life organizing archaeological and palaeontological excavations in Asturias, northern Spain. Her research on the palaeoecology of cave bears has changed the views on how these extinct animals lived and interacted with prehistoric humans, and her work in caves with fossils of mammoths, elephants, rhinoceros, lions and leopards in the same area has offered new perspectives on the extinction of these animals in southern Europe. She explored and probed several caves in Spain looking for testimonies on the origins of modern humans and in 2002 she made an astonishing discovery in a remote cave in Northern Spain. Her test excavations revealed an occupation sequence ranging from the Early Upper Paleolithic, to the Mousterian -- the first arrival of modern humans into Europe back to Neanderthals and probably further back to the time of Homo erectus. Given the richness of finds and the depth of the stratigraphic sequence, she will be excavating and researching The Sopeña Archaeological Project for decades to come. She is currently Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University."
In 1997 I was coparticipant in the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Investigación Científica y Técnica. My excavations have been carried out in caves if the Parque Natural de Somiedo, in Tito Bustillo (Ribadesella) and others, and more recently and currently in the Concejo de Onís http://www.concejodeonis.com where I worked as County Archaeologist for a while. The fieldwork season is usually during the summer, which gives me the chance of expending some time in my beloved Asturias, and also to scape the heat of Arizona during the worst months of the year.
I found about Asturianus.Org about one year ago when I was trying to build a Mailing List on Gaita Asturiana in English. There is very little information in English about our instrument, and people wanting to learn to play it have a hard time if they don't speak Spanish, so I wanted to create a forum to help this if possible. I originally considered to set the US gaita asturiana list within AsturianUS.org. Please do visit or join us at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/us ... asturiana/
It's great having AsturianUS, sometimes I compare the way Irish and even Galician emigrants have carried out their roots and culture to other countries, and I wonder why if the traditional culture of Asturias is so very rich and so very alive we havent' done so well abroad. But it's never too late.
Puxa,
Ana
Ps. Terechu, Pozu Faustón is just the address of the Laboratorio de Prehistorio de Proaza, is the name of the street (caleya I would say).
Hello AsturianUS from Ana C. Pinto
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