Discover Kentucky Archaeology

https://archaeology.ky.gov:443/Find-a-Site/Pages/default.aspx

by auditor_3d • 4 years ago

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archaeology.ky.gov

auditor_3d• 4 years ago

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

virgulino• 4 years ago

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

  The request is blocked.
  
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r0n22• 4 years ago

Same getting blocked in Canada

randlet• 4 years ago

Same. Too bad as I recently spent a couple of days motorcycling through Kentucky and there were some beautiful parts of that state.

Namari• 4 years ago

Or the UK

twic• 4 years ago

Brit 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.

kadenwolff2• 4 years ago

Same

brudgers2• 4 years ago

Since 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.

kennend33• 4 years ago

out of interest i tried the states main site https://kentucky.gov/Pages/home.aspx

works just fine from Canada?

robga• 4 years ago

Interesting 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?

CSSer• 4 years ago

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.

ramesh31• 4 years ago

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....

sprkwd• 4 years ago

But watch out! Kentucky Cave Goblins!! https://www.andersondesigngroupstore.com/a/collections/61-am...

aklemm• 4 years ago

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

dan353hehe• 4 years ago

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

For anyone geoblocked

OedipusRex2• 4 years ago

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

mod4• 4 years ago

Went as a kid, it was badass.

OedipusRex2• 4 years ago

I was there a few years ago and the power went out for a few seconds and everyone just froze in place lol

kadenwolff2• 4 years ago

If you're interested in the magic of Kentucky:

http://kentuckyroutezero.com/

nulbyte• 4 years ago

This is such a fascinating and engaging game! I don't recall where I found it, but I definitely agree.

WorldMaker5• 4 years ago

Relatedly, 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

SquibblesRedux• 4 years ago

I once held a company retreat at Mammoth Cave. Although the company went bust, we did many really cool things along the way.

kevmo• 4 years ago

Kentucky rules.

dlyons• 4 years ago

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

phlyingpenguin2• 4 years ago

Which is better: Wick's or Danny Mac's?

dpcx• 4 years ago

Also Louisvillian, Danny Macs imho.

WorldMaker5• 4 years ago

I 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.

ducharmdev2• 4 years ago

Never been to Wick's but Danny Mac's is heaven

mrtranscendence2• 4 years ago

By which factor greater than 1 is Lexington superior to Louisville? I’d say 5x but I’m curious to get a Louisville resident’s opinion.

phlyingpenguin2• 4 years ago

They've got us on the beer factor and higher education. Not sports, but eff college sports anyway. Looking forward to going down for Lexington SC some though.

mauvehaus3• 4 years ago

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

mrtranscendence2• 4 years ago

I 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• 4 years ago

Florence 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.

daveevad3• 4 years ago

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

reportingsjr• 4 years ago

In northern KY it's about as you would expect. Limited, but there are a handful of companies doing interesting things.

primeradical• 4 years ago

Lex 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• 4 years ago

Also 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.

WorldMaker5• 4 years ago

Same 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.

ducharmdev2• 4 years ago

Lots of .NET

silisili4• 4 years ago

That's the whole Midwest, for some odd reason. As a Linux guy since childhood, I've always had to find remote work.

nwsm3• 4 years ago

I 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.

kathysgeek• 4 years ago

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).

kennend33• 4 years ago

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.

bcook• 4 years ago

what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?

Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?

kennend33• 4 years ago

A 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 - works just fine from Canada?

mod4• 4 years ago

Would 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?

chasd00• 4 years ago

i 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• 4 years ago

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

leetrout3• 4 years ago

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...

daveevad3• 4 years ago

Louisa KY on Hacker News I cannot believe it. How is it going up there these days?

leetrout3• 4 years ago

Well I am not there but they are quite proud of Noah Thompson winning american idol.

Where were you from / when did you leave? I have not lived in Louisa since 2003.

maxhallinan• 4 years ago

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.

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