http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=bes+egypt http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bes%20egypt There's a lot of fodder here for comparisons! Not only with...
Here's another article, dealing with the Palau hominids, which are reminiscent of LB1 in a number of ways: Fossil Pygmy Bones Found in Palau - A challenge to...
Oh, this is odd: If you view the photo in context, on the web page (first link below,) the aspect ratio (horizontal VS vertical dimensions) appears to be...
Below is a link to a photo of some Maya/Meztisa women from the same website (note, Meztisa means of mixed ancestry, in this case generally Maya and Spanish,...
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32728/title/\ Footprints_in_the_ash Footprints in the ash By Sid Perkins May 29th, 2008 Web edition Humans may have...
Interestingly, these legends even exist (and persist) in Alaska. Here are two recent links dealing with this: 'Little people' e-mail zips through rural Alaska ...
Background Article: Paranormal Dwarves Thursday, June 05, 2008 http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/ The sightings of "little people" in places as remote from each...
The rock throwing by unseen little people is something also frequently reported in the Maya regions. My in-laws, for instance, say that this definitely...
I've emailed Mike Dunham, seeking information about the annual ... I also provided him with a link to this group (Flores_Man,) and mentioned that I saw what...
Not directly related to Homo floresiensis, but relevant to evolution, and all that we don't yet know about it. Dan ... wrote: Parasitoid turns its host into a...
Video here: http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/8222760 Google News search: http://news.google.com/news?\ hl=en&tab=wn&ned=&q=komodo+divers+rescued&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n ...
Hi all, Mike provided me with this link: http://www.fairycongress.com/ It doesn't look like the the kind of conference I was hoping for. Oh, well. It's...
The divergent mtDNA is quite interesting. I'm reminded of Mungo Man's mtDNA results, and also some recent SE Asian mtDNA studies, pointing to older divergence...
Mentioned in this blog entry is a new article in Scientific American, which I don't currently have access to. (If someone does have access to it, I'd...
As for the Old English word, "holbytlan," there is that "ol" syllable, again. I've posted about that before. It seems to, for some reason, have an ancient...
A quick Google search for "root words" doesn't bring up "ol," so it remains possible this is an original/new observation. Perhaps coincidental, but I think...
Also, it's unlikely that "ol" was simply transmitted, via English pirates, to the Maya. The reason: the "ol" word they used (and still use, in many cases,)...
Oops. "Ol" in "Sata Ol" doesn't mean "crazy," it probably means something like "head" or "mind," though I'm not certain. I say this because "big head" is...
I thought I read in a scientific magazine I subscribe to that scientists are already testing hobbit dna, and were surprised to find some dna sequences that are...
Hi Alvin, Yes, the consensus (on both sides of the "debate") appears to be that the DNA extracted was almost surely modern human contamination. The skeletal...
OK, two Yucatec Maya speakers have told me, that "sata ol" literally means "dry hole" or "dry well." (sata=dry, ol=hole.) As in many Maya words, I get the...
The word "troglodyte" reportedly comes from Ancient Greek: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troglodyte As does the root word for "pygmy," which meant "forearm"...
Regarding troglodytes, I did a little reading, to try to find out more about the origins of the legend/history/word. There appears to be another admixture...