This is the same theory followed by Jared Diamond in his new book. I've heard lots of negative feedback about the idea. Release Date: Aug. 31, 2005 Contact:...
Loreto, New Orleans has some interesting "Ausronesian" history itself related to the "Manilamen" of the galleon trade. Manilamen: The Filipino Roots in America...
The find is described as Neolithic and is located in southeast Korea. ... World Oldest Fishing Boat Unearthed An unprecedented excavation was made in the...
This article uses the words boat and ship but what it seems to be describing is a canoe. I'd like to see more of how the canoe was built. Any more details? It...
... describing is a canoe. I'd like to see more of how the canoe was built. Any more details? It was likely made by chipping with a stone adze and the use of...
Sunken treasures shed light on 10th century Asian trade AP Jakarta: Wooden ships laden with ceramic pots, golden necklaces and valuable spices have for...
Among the Austronesian Jarai and Rhade people of the Central Highlands of Vietnam and Cambodia exist the famed Kings of Fire and Water. The following excerpt...
Haven't read this one yet. Patterns of prehistoric boar Sus scrofa domestication, and inter-islands pig trading across the East China Sea, as determined by...
Dear Paul, Re: the Jarai King of Fire and King of Water, see also: http://www.uark.edu/depts/hesweb/rsweb/NRI_PDF/VNHighlands3.pdf (check out at pp. 28-30 of...
Francesco, Frazier considered the departmental kings of nature as the oldest forms of kingship. He apparently he did not see any necessary relationship between...
Ancient art form marked criminals, courtesans, samurai By David C. Farmer Special to The Advertiser "Kumonryu Shishin," by Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) from...
Tatooing the body is a Bai Yue practice, together with the others: wearing short hair, favoring the left, tatooing the forehead, teeth blackening, sex organ ...
Question: How were teeth blackened? Robin Day South Korea Cam Nguyen <camtrongnguyen@...> wrote: Tatooing the body is a Bai Yue practice, together with ...
Sorry I don't know the procedure. Just know that it protects teeth in traditionally bad hygiene of the old days among common people, and did an amazing good...
Usually the teeth are stained dark from chewing the betel quid. In some cultures, they clean the teeth to prevent the staining. For example, in lowland Luzon...
Beetle nut has some caffeine type molecules does it not? I remember reading that it causes gum damage. I'll check out more. Robin Day S. Korea Paul Kekai...
... reading that it causes gum damage. I'll check out more. ... There is some association between betel chewing and gum disease. Much stronger evidence is...
This site http://erowid.org/plants/betel/betel_health1.shtml lists several chemicals in the palm nut, including arecoline and it is a stronger stimulant than...
Toraja homes Batak homes Orang Ulu longhouse Bidayu longhouse interior Tree of life decoration, Kenyan longhouse Micronesian homes Traditional Tahitian...
These houses on wooden stilts are precisely what would have saved so many lives in flooded Biloxi and New Orleans. In much of the Caribbean local people build...
... BEFORE they build their houses abd barns in flat fields near the road. They anticipate floods. ... One of the problems in New Orleans is that the levees...
Thanks Paul. One of the questions for which I have not yet had a answer is: Does New Orleans actually sink because the sediments are 1. part organic and still...
... answer is: Does New Orleans actually sink because the sediments are 1. part organic and still decaying and 2. still compacting.? ... Generally they are...
Mawalang galang na po... Does anybody here know anything about Maranao language (Lanao Del Sur, Mindanao, Philippines)? A site perhaps?... about the language...
Some of the houses that survived the December 2004 tsunami that hit Medan, Sumatra, were of the reinforced cement pillar type. The windows and doors on the...
To A.L. Fauni-Tanos Hi. I can refer you to an expert on Maranao culture and language who is a Maranao himself, Dr. Nagasura Madale. But right now the only...
Archeological findings on Kon Tum prehistory likely to be published 09/16/2005 -- 11:39(GMT+7) Ha Noi (VNA) - The Culture and Information Service (CIS) of...
Small brain did not stop Hobbit having big ideas By Nic Fleming and Roger Highfield in Dublin (Filed: 08/09/2005) A fossil of a diminutive human nicknamed "the...
The Megalithic Tradition of West Sumba http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/dept/fac_bio/hayden/reports/sumba.pdf Apung Iru fluvial festival in Apalit Regards, Paul...
... http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/dept/fac_bio/hayden/reports/sumba.pdf Dear Paul, This paper on the megalithic cultures of Sumba is quite interesting. ...
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