I'm posting Oppenheimer's response to Peter Bellwood's review (which I don't have). There were other reviews by experts but I can't locate them at present....
Dear Friends, HAPPY AND JOYFUL NEW YEAR 2006 FOR YOU ALL. LET THIS BRING YOU PROSPERITY, PEACE OF MIND AND SUCCESS vasulu ... From: "Bhoral Jani" To:...
... do not appear to be either phonetically or phonologically motivated. What changes is he talking about? He has mentioned odd changes in print before, but...
Just a note: I'm reading Mr. Solheim's article in Nat'l. Geographic in which he gives speculative dates on early bronze & ceramics from Spirit Cave, Thailand,...
Dear Mr. Lemak, I read your article on Mt. Sumeru. Several ancient Hindu literatures do have a mention about Mt. Sumeru and it is described that it is in the...
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Hi Ram. I have only what I had typed below, which is a page from an old paperback book called Zen of Archery which I no longer posess. Beside that, I know...
Hi Lemak, Tku for your prompt reply. Subsequently I checked up Google on Sumeru and got lot of details. Still whatever is said in Indian literature has not...
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Paul was discussing the the 5 peaks of Mt. Meru and the churning of the milky sea a while back. You may find more in his sambali blog, address at the end of...
A few weeks ago on Discover Chanel there was a program about Chinese cooking and they mentioned that Homo erectus in the area near Beijing was found to use an...
Reading about the Gond hunter-gatherer people in Kipling's Jungle Book story. Have these and other Indian tribal groups been genetically compared to...
Excavation below the Tamboro Volcano in east Indonesia has yielded an entire preserved community burried in ash. This is an Indonesian Pompei. Other similar...
... an entire preserved community burried in ash. This is an Indonesian Pompei. Other similar communities are expected to be found in the Phillipines...
From: "Paul Kekai Manansala" Date: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:56 am Subject: Re: The �first farmer� belonged to (UP) India, says ASI pinatubo.geo Online Now Send...
Paul, where is the eastern Himalayan foothills? China? Burma? Bengaladesh? Robin, interesting about Tamboro, I wonder if they've ever considered looking for...
... Bengaladesh? ... The Eastern Himalayas usually refers to the area from about the Darjeeling Hills to Eastern Bhutan. So basically the area known as Sikkim...
... On second thought, maybe a location further south in Bangladesh is meant where wild rice still exists. Sikkim and Bhutan sound too cold for Indica, which...
You might want to find out where they were referring to, because at least to me, foothills indicate extremely low hills, nothing at all like the Himalayas ...
A. Lamak I can't help being excited. Loretto Bagio first suggested to me that much of the history of SE Asia is there waiting to be dug up around the base of...
How does this tie in with Munda groups credited earlier with introducing rice cultivation to India. I know very little about this. Robin Day Daud Deden...
... Indica is basically lowland rice, although some people like the Ifugao of the Philippines grow both Indica and Japonica in the mountains (wet terraces). ...
... that much of the history of SE Asia is there waiting to be dug up around the base of these many volcanoes. Paul has this in his sambali blog now. I am...
... introducing rice cultivation to India. I know very little about this. ... There are Munda groups like the Khasi and Ho in Bangladesh. Many Himalayan...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/42758 According to van Driem (I think it was), the first agriculture started in Szechuan, from where it...
... Paul, teredo/toredo worms eat wood, drilling through wooden hulls quickly unless treated with chemicals, they evolved in connection with mangrove coastal...
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0507991103 Global genetic positioning: Evidence for early human population centers in coastal habitats William Amos...
... Yes, I've heard this too. I guess there are conditions in which wood in saltwater would decompose, and of course, it could be obliterated in storm...
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