Flores tools Hs or Hf? http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/flores/mata_menge_tools_brumm_2006.html Ancient terms for water people? Naiad = water nymph,...
Hello everyone, I'm currently working on a web site, where I'd like to present various proposals of phonological correspondences (not only) Austric languages....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197972,00.html Lost Dimension Yields Accidental Discovery Friday, June 02, 2006 By Bjorn Carey Using strong magnets and a...
I'm not even an amateur astronomer so perhaps someone can explain what I saw recently. When I flew from Changsha, in south China, westward to Kunming and Dali...
... what I saw recently. ... Dali in Yunnan Province I noticed the night moon was much brighter and this is due to the higher altitude and cleaner skys. What I...
This is in yahoo news today: Research published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in 2003 suggested that 16 to 17 million men, most in Central Asia,...
... tomb ... an ... Robin, are you suggesting that Vietnam was conquered by the Mongols? DD ... __________________________________________________ Do You...
... what I saw recently. ... and Dali in Yunnan Province I noticed the night moon was much brighter and this is due to the higher altitude and cleaner skys. ...
Daud Deden <alas_my_loves@...> wrote: "Robin, are you suggesting that Vietnam was conquered by the Mongols? DD" No, and I'm skeptical about Sykes' claim...
Thanks Francesco, that was useful. So the crescent moon is usually boat-shaped or nearly so, at the equator? It is a bit hard to visualize from written text....
... boat-shaped or nearly so, at the equator? It is a bit hard to visualize from written text. [Explains why the boat-shaped moon is prominant in art from near...
The moon appears huge when just above the horizon, and much smaller when it is higher in the sky. This is due to the curved surface of earth. It's more complex...
... near the latitude of north Taiwan, therefore more of the equatorial view or boat- shaped aspect? ... The Moon appears horizontal at the equator when it's...
... boat-shaped or nearly so, at the equator? It is a bit hard to visualize from written text. [Explains why the boat-shaped moon is prominant in art from near...
This past weekend I saw a big rodent in a cage outside a restaurant (food). They said it was a bamboo mouse. To me it looked like a North American Muskrat...
Choi+Driwantoro searched for cutmarks on 5 large collections of fossil animal bones from Sangiran, found a few on a bovid femur & a bovid skull. They tried to...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HumanMigrations/message/626?l=1 Rejects cultural exchange, accepts independent development of similar ceramic artifacts. My...
... It's strange that the author mentions "fantastic diffusionist theories." There really is nothing "fantastic" about it at all. It becomes fantastic only...
Fully agree, Paul. BTW, are Hoa Binh and Dong Son both early neolithic cultures, generally coastal and riverine in South China and South East Asia? I found a...
... Hoa Binh is mainly Mesolithic, while Dong Son is 'bronze age.' Hoabinhian is mostly coastal and riverine. I think Dongson too fits that description. Some...
Quite right Paul, It is illogical to argue against diffision when North and South America were initially populated by Asians who made their way by diffusion...
Quite right Paul, It is illogical to argue against diffision when North and South America were initially populated by Asians who made their way by diffusion...
When China Ruled the Seas : The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 (Paperback) by Louise Levathes "In the millennium that preceded the rise of the...
... 1405-1433 (Paperback) ... first Chinese empire about 1600 B.C., the diverse Yi (and Yue) peoples of eastern and southern..." ... Haven't read the book but...
Dear list members, I'm a student of linguistics and currently happen to be interested in Austric languages at the moment. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to...
Dear Petr, ... In my online paper at http://www.safarmer.com/Indo-Eurasian/F.Brighenti.munda.pdf , which is basically a short compendium of the various...
Here is a mast head knot link (#5 has picture) http://www.ropeworks.biz/archive/masthead.html Doesn't this knot have a resemblance to the lingling-o picture? ...