Torsten, I was looking at your word list and thinking that PAN *R turns sometimes to r and sometimes to g (as in hipag "sister-in-law", bigas "husked rice). ...
Notice the Jomon are given Central Asian origin here, while the Yayoi are Southeast Asian. J Hum Genet. 2005 Nov 18; Dual origins of the Japanese: common...
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"The third night the dream happened again, and Salama was convinced nature was angry. The Moken legends tell that the sea sends in a Laboon every once in a...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4505516.stm Severe drougth in Africa 70kya, Hs bottleneck or migration; does this correlate with Mt. Toba explosion?...
Dr. Celia Ehrlich contributed to this group and austronesian@yahoogroups.com in 2003. She studied tropical plants especially the genus Cordyline. I was looking...
Hi Robin, My Condolences for the family and friends of Ms. Celia. Though we learned this late. I will be saying a prayer, light a candle and spill a glass of...
Did Celia Ehrlich finished her last work? I am looking into that Paul. She raised 5 boys before doing her Ph.D. She had a long article about the use of red,...
Dear Shri Krishnamurthy, Namaskaram. Some additional work has been done to explain the metaphors of makara, s'rivatsa. I am sure now many devices used on...
Torsten, The following settlement word reconstructions are from Green and Pawley: Inhabited territory: *banua PMP, *panua POC. Settlement; open space...
I should also add that although I'm not sure of the latest discoveries from the mainland, the evidence of wetland agriculture in the Pacific is older than in...
Been thinking more about Taro. Today I bought some to see if there are raphide crystals in the raw tubers that might sting the tongue. The didn't sting so they...
... are raphide crystals in the raw tubers that might sting the tongue. The didn't sting so they are quite edible uncooked. ... dispersed by river currents or...
Regarding taro one our oldest human food plants: Found this: Matthews P.J. The origins, dispersal and domestication of taro. Ph.D. thesis. Canberra, Australia...
Thought I'd mention that hippos fling their feces with their tail all arround them. (I don't know if relevant to taro distribution) They spend their daytime in...
A. Lamak: Some interesting ideas. There are no Hippos in Asia now but I don't know about the fauna of the distant past. Vegetative parts are digested in Hippos...
Turns out it was not taro that killed 27 Philippine children but deep-fried bitter cassava. I have had cassava that was called "yucca" root and it does not...
Bottle Gourds carried by Asians across Berringia? That is a strange idea. They don't grow much further north than Korea. I would back the sea route in a...
... idea. They don't grow much further north than Korea. I would back the sea route in a canoe. ... BP but have been naturalized (feral) once introduced....
The full text article can be found free at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0509279102v1.pdf It has a map showing the distribution in the Americas. From this...
... http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20051213/sc_space/skullsinsouthamericatellnewmigra\ ... As long as they don't insist that modern populations are not related ...
Hey there Robin, This is Ryan here. It's been a while. I first began communicating with you RE: Torajan culture in Sulawesi. Are you still in Korea now? I am...
It's possible the bottle gourd in Asia (we know of ancient agriculture in Korea) could have drifted on the North Pacific Current and have been picked up by...
... agriculture in Korea) could have drifted on the North Pacific Current and have been picked up by beach combers and re-domesticated on the American Pacific...
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