Fri. 1/14  General Meeting, 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. John Ruskamp will speak on:  Trans-Cultural Diffusion in North American Native Rock Writing:

This dual topic lecture presents images of a previously unidentified solar “sun dagger” shrine in Eastern Arizona, the native folklore associated with it, and explores the possibility that it was the natural precursor for the famously constructed Fajada Butte sun daggers of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. In addition, several specific ancient glyph forms found across North American are evaluated and found to be substantially similar to equally ancient, Han Dynasty era, Chinese ideographs.

Sat. 1/15   First day of Special Exhibit “Bundenbach’s Golden Fossils” at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Elmhurst, IL.

The slate quarries of Bundenbach, yielded slate shigles used on roofs for over 400 years. Quarrymen were the first to notice the rare pyritized fossils embedded in the slate. By 1800s fossil collectors recognized the importance of the Bundenbach fossils. The fossils are Devonian sea creatures preserved by pyrite in slate.

Sat. 1/15   Paleonotology Study Group Meeting, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Part I: Tom Williams and John Catalano will speak about The Lower Permian.