The Bayer Stone Head: What Is It? What face stares out from the almost thirty-pound stone head found in the ground in 1932, in New Paltz, New York? Are the...
First, a few rambling notes: Even as this film is set to hit theaters, "journalists" and such continue to repeat inane musings about how the Maya people ...
Hi Dave, Good points. I have one counterpoint, though: It appears that their civilization's collapse may have been greatly exaggerated. At least, they were...
Another supporting point: The Maya codices (Maya-language hieroglyphic documents) were still very much in use and well maintained, at the time of the Spanish...
... wrote: Hi Philip, True, yet it could be argued that what I am typing now is a "dialect" of English, as it is diverged from the forms that have been used in...
Note, aside from this article being gratuitously loaded with questionable assumptions, I think there is some interesting information here, which seems (to me)...
... According to glottochronology (which no one actually believes any more), the Mayan languages started separating from each other 4100 years ago. That is,...
Here are a few "stinkers" from the movie: 1. The 4 leading characters are not even Mayas, though the film was billed as being all-Maya. What, Mayas weren't...
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Important: Here is additional material refuting the Apocalypto film, which I just posted in another group. I was responding to someone who essentially said,...
... <dgplexus1@...> wrote: Good point. However, something is missing from that scenario. Perhaps if Christians today were in the same boat as the Mayas ...
Posted on Wed, Dec. 13, 2006 MOVIE COMMENTARY BY MARTA BARBER When the news spread in the summer of 2005 that Mel Gibson was making a film on the Maya, there...
Hi Anthony, There are three main problems with that: 1. The film was heavily marketed and hyped (including by Mel himself) as being as "realistic" and ...
I presume that Anne wouldn't mind me forwarding this here. Dan ... [respondee's name omitted here] This is much more serious than you might think it is. Of...
... the environment, the fearsome belief in omens tied to natural events, such as a solar eclipse. A final note: The brutality is one of the least realistic...
Something thing I didn't mention before: The native Yucatec Maya speakers who watched the film with me, told me the actors were speaking Maya much too slowly...
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1809514.htm?ancient http://tinyurl.com/ychsdh Aboriginal language had ice age origins Judy Skatssoon ABC...
I'll see if I can get the full text of this article, then post or upload it. Dan ... wrote: Trends Ecol Evol. 2006 Dec 6; [Epub ahead of print] Brains, islands...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061214-humans- africa.html?source=rss http://tinyurl.com/y6n5mb Humans Migrated Out of Africa, Then Some Went...
Note: When this article mentions elk bones, I'm reminded of the near-total lack of primate bones (including chimpanzee,) whether fossilized or otherwise, even...
Just a side note -- Speaking of new species discoveries, or the verification of the existence of cryptids, I remember something that may or may not be of...
P.S., I also remember that its legs appeared remarkably long, compared to other rodents I've seen. Its torso was also relatively tall (it seemed to be much...
This suggests to me, "genetic reversion," (as yet unproven in mammals, though recently shown to occur in flowering plants,) possibly increased in frequency by...
... wrote: Thanks, David. I didn't know that cattle genes are present in the general bison population. I knew that hybrids (some call them "beefalo") are ...
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