Looking at an older National Geographic Dec. 2005 (devoted to a big article about Caffeine) and noticed the photo (p. 10 and 11) of Mt. Semeru in east Java,...
5 days ago I watched a Discovery TV program about a Bolton University (England) mummy. It was investigated using modern forensic methods. The interesting part...
10 March 2008 Micronesian Islands Colonized by Small-Bodied Humans Since the reporting of the so-called "hobbit" fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia,...
Not long after the Tsunami I went to Ache to visit a friend there and the locals said that a tribe of very tiny dark people lived up in the mountains, keeping...
When I was visiting Borobudur (in Bangali 'boro' means 'big', don't know if there is a connection there) in Java, I couldn't help but notice that the clothing...
... University (England) mummy. It was investigated using modern forensic methods. The interesting part was the conclusion that the mixture for coating the...
There is also a Mount Meru near Kilamanjaro. ... know if there is a connection there) in Java, I couldn't help but notice that the clothing of the Sultan and...
Carlos Aramayo from the IndiaArchaeology yahoogroup alerted me to this article. Palaeoethnobotanical record of cultivated crops and associated weeds and wild...
I'm not sure if this is connected, but on the show "Mummy Forensics" aired on the History International Channel, they found a resin of a South Pacific...
Paul and Carlos Aramayo: That was very intersting about the Custard Apple seeds found in ancient India. That tree with large hard shiny seeds is stricty...
That is intriguing, but I would say that it is not so likely, unless they know exactly which species, and clearly exclude all other species resins. Araucaria...
Trends Parasitol. 2008 Mar;24(3):112-5. Epub 2008 Feb 11. [Click here to read] <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/fref.fcgi?PrId=3048&itool=Abst\ ...
I wonder if these parasites could have survived a faster voyage across the Aleutian archipelago by boat or winter ice trek. At the moment, I'm considering that...
... Just going from memory, and maybe Robin can clarify, but these parasites don't exist in Siberia or Alaska/northern Canada nor have they ever apparently...
http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2008-03-31-voa31.cfm My thought was that south China was settled from west or south, while north China was from...
... I wonder if it was just the paddle that was found, or if there was any evidence of sailing equipment. Regards, Paul Kekai Manansala Nusantao Maritime Trade...
I don't know more. I recall that a ruminant (reindeer?) shoulder blade was used as a paddle (called 'lap'?) somewhere in eastern Europe I think. There was a...
South China would have been settled prehistorically from those living near stream mouths and and the ocean strand as it in when the Sunda Shelf, or the now...
... near stream mouths ... submerged coast of ... Solheim, my mentor, ... A lot of people forget that Sundaland still existed when eastern Asia was first...
... This is not as impressive a list of cognates as it seems, and doesn't, on its own, prove a direct connection between Malay and Kapampangan. - Many of the...
Yes, I don't believe there is a direct linguistic link except as distant cousins with Malay. The Kapampangan people did have trade relationships with Malay and...
Genetic relationship of populations in China J. Y. Chu a , b , W. Huang b , c , S. Q. Kuang c , J. M. Wang c , J. J. Xu d , Z. T. Chu a , Z. Q. Yang a , K. Q....
First evidence of shell fish-hook technology in the Gulf Authors: Méry, Sophie1 <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/search/article?title=neolithic&title_type\ ...