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\ ...
I've posted a new map, with (perhaps) better graphics, showing how a later migration of Austronesian speakers injected their new systems and words into a...
I just learned from Grace Odal-Devora that according to some still unpublished discoveries at the National Museum of the Philippines, human remains dated at...
Dear Paul Kekai, This information (57,000 BP) has still to be released and clarified by the National Museum people. I heard them say it but I am not sure now...
[0] Earliest known human settlement in the Americas raises new questions [Photo of the Chilean coastline.] Chilean coastline and inland food samples raise...
At my blog, there's a map, showing the site 10 miles from the bay, 50 miles from the open Pacific. My first thought was that the gomphothere meat was more...
... That description of gomphotheres seems sloppy. Cuvieronius survived in South Americ until 11,000 BP, and Wiki claims that gomphotheres survived until...
New DNA evidence overturns population migration theory in Island Southeast Asia The researchers show that population dispersals came earlier, from within the...
Sorry for getting so far off topic, but I hoped someone might have experience with this frog, biologically or as a delicacy. Does it actually eat crabs? How? ...
J Parasitol. 2008 Apr;94(2):467-72. Gymnophalloides seoi eggs from the stool of a 17th century female mummy found in Hadong, Republic of Korea. Seo M, Shin DH,...
Paul, from your blog I read this: Chi Han writes that a popular name for the coconut was Yueh-wang-t 'ou, "head of the king of Yueh," a designation explained...
Found two interesting items in an older book by National Geographic:  Shadbolt M. and O. Ruhen. 1969. Isles of the South Pacific. 212 p.  On p. 202 there is...
... ... Artificial cranial deformation, a practice having a prehistoric origin, was once practised in all five continents. The great British anthropologist...
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