An Alternative Way Towards Food Production: The Perspective from the Libyan Sahara Elena A. A. Garcea Journal of World Prehistory. June 2004. Abstract Food...
Coping with risk: Later stone age technological strategies at Blydefontein Rock Shelter, South Africa C. Britt Bousman Journal of Anthropological Archaeology....
Carel: Well, it's too bad the site wasn't "paleollithic"(which of course is my interest), but I have no trouble accepting a report on a Bronze Age/Early Iron...
Some more technical stuff about those Mexican footprints. I guess the world will have to wait until 3D casts are made before coming to a final conclusion. ...
Dave, Anne, One big difference here is that the new species in the paper was where two closely related species interbreed in a <new niche>. New niche ...
G Henderson [Science,volume 308,page 361]commented that,if all the remaining ice melted,sea level would rise 70m.Has anyone sighted other estimates?? [bob] ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4742453.stm S Korea unveils first dog clone Scientists in South Korea have produced the first dog clones, they report...
David Timpe (dtimpe@...) has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.) ... Personal message: Dietary overlap between africanus and...
Sounds like a useful technique. Interestingly enough, the species we'd been thinking of as a specialist seems to be more of a generalist under this scenario....
If anyone is going to be in London around the 2nd September, consider coming to the annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology...
David Timpe (dtimpe@...) has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.) ... Personal message: Ground sloths lingered until 6 kya in...
"If climate were the major factor driving the extinction of ground sloths, you would expect the extinctions to occur at about the same time on both the islands...
... <[map: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/eur(pre.gif] This is the vegetation cover which would exist in the absence of agriculture, and which does exist...
Agreed the sloths must have been a much easier critter for humans to have wiped out than such animals as mammoths, and islands aren't the same as continents....
Dear all, I am introducing a new archaeology course in addition to the two which I already offer. Please see below for details and contact me offlist for any...
Thank tou for the URL's. [bob] ... years <[map: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/eur(pre.gif] This is the vegetation cover which would exist in the absence...
By the time the wooly mammoth evolved, it had become quite a specialized cold climate animal with a couple of forms. The American mammoth was somewhat...
Hi Thorfinn, The USDA catagorizes the US into climate zones based on 10 degrees Farenheit between the average coldest temperatures expected in a year. It also...
Dale: ANd I live in a climatic zone which apparently is equivalent to that of the Texas Panhandle. OTOH, "Weather for Dummies claims that we don't have winter...
... Nice map, but it does not include the northern half of Fennoscandia, which was the part I criticized on the other map. ... The Scandinavian tundra is...
That is USDA plant hardiness zone: which is only based on average lowest temperture the year. Quite obviously Seattle is not the same as the Texas panhandle....
Part is indeed missing from the USDA map of the area. Please bear in mind that this is a temperature map and meant for initial judgement on ornamentals and...
... It doesn't. The zone above the timberline is covered with a thick growth of grass, herbs and low bushes, and even in the higher zones there should in many...
... The Sunset Gardening books have better, much more nuanced climate zone maps for the Western states, and I heard they've prepared same for the rest of the...
Perhaps not "real" paleoanthropological news, but it's been slow lately. . . . Anne G Skull of most ancient man in Europe discovered in Eastern Georgia ...
Dale: On closer inspection, I discovered that Seattle supposedly has a climate similar to Austin, Texas. . . . and I lived there for two years, so I know from...
Torfinn: Interesting. Similar things have been happening to the forests of Washington State. For example, if you take a trip to Mt. Rainier, you see all...
You are missing the thrill of a lifetime. A bolt of lightning that seems to flash down the alley lighting the bedroom almost to reading level for an instant ...
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