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I slipped on a banana peel walking home from the internet cafe. I’m not sure if this has ever happened to anyone in the past century who was not a cartoon or a vaudvillian with a handle bar mustache. There are little bananas everywhere. They are the perfect size. By the time you get to the end of a regular banana you’re just about sick of the mealy yellowness, but these are the most perfect three-bite snacks. Unless you happen to slip on one…”
Amy Ellsworth, Digital Media Developer at the Penn Museum, accompanyed the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP) for the 2010 (January 1-17) season in Luang Prabang to document the project on video and on her blog. Amy conducted interviews with the excavators and recorded her own personal experiences touring the countryside in her daily posts.
One expedition of the project involved traveling to a remote village to gather water samples from a cave that plunged 1 kilometer into the earth. The team was the second group of "westerners" to ever explore this cave. The water samples collected will provide important data about fluctuation in paleoclimate.
