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I just learned from Grace Odal-Devora that according to some still unpublished discoveries at the National Museum of the Philippines, human remains dated at...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...
Francesco On an earlier thread I posted.... I have been wondering if the South American drugs like cocaine and nicotene turning up in Africa (Egyptian...
how can a custom from jerico go to an island? ... From: TTT UUU <gymnogoy@...> Subject: [austric] Ancestor Skull Veneration and Infant Head Binding To:...
Environ Sci Technol. 2008 Jul 1;42(13):4732-8. Seven thousand years of records on the mining and utilization of metals from lake sediments in central...
Hello Dac Islands are not totally isolated. Customs travel the globe with the dispersal of people and can be retained for ages. New Guinea etc. was not always...
Regarding the saving of family skulls and fleshing them out with clay and paint. This custom is also practiced in the New Hebrides Islands well east of New...
If you liked your grand-dad, then you might go a bit further than just drop him into a pit in the ground, and forget about him. But then, you've got very few...