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27939
Thanks Richard, this is a help to some of the amatures here. I also have been using a site that explains the Oxygen Isotope Stages along with several other...
Elena Vaccaro
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Oct 1, 2006
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27940
FWIW. Evidently they looked a bit 'odd'. Maria Sep 24 2006 James McCarthy, Wales on Sunday http://tinyurl.com/f4lhm IF YOU think your man is a neanderthal,...
maria guzman
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All: There's not much of a story here, and I don't know what they'll eventually find, but it is now thought that the remains in Kent's Cavern, England, are...
Anne Gilbert
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Betulaceae also includes alders. Maybe it's easier to make a resin with them? Dave ... From: Richard Parker <richardparker01@...> To:...
David Timpe
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Oct 1, 2006
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Richard: What you suggest below, is entirely possible, especially in view of the fact that there is increasing evidence that Neandertals did a fair amount of...
Anne Gilbert
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Dave: In Western Washington, alders are a very common tree, at least from just south of the Canadian border, where birches sort of "take over" as you go north....
Anne Gilbert
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27947
The question is how easy is it to make the glue? The word is that birch needs some very complicated processes to produce anything useful, and so far nobody's...
David Timpe
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Oct 1, 2006
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Dave: I don't know how easy or hard it would have been for Neandertals(or anybody else living then)to make the glue. My "sense" is, that it wouldn't be any...
Anne Gilbert
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Oct 2, 2006
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To all: The question of glue is also important re: The N-flute. The published viewpoint of Nowell & Chase was that my analysis of the holes conforming to a...
Greenwich
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Oct 2, 2006
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... Incidentally, someone said that nobody had found a way to make the glue without ceramics. What methods have been tried? For example, I suppose the first...
John Wilson
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Dave, I used to live in northern Wisconson where there was an abundance of birch trees. I seem to recall that some people tapped birch trees the same way they...
Elena Vaccaro
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Oct 2, 2006
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It does seem that pine pitch would be easier to turn into a glue. Birch sap is actually quite good tasting, but boiling it down probably incurs the same...
David Timpe
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Oct 3, 2006
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... Birch sap is actually quite good tasting, but boiling it down probably incurs the same problems glue production has. Maybe you could do it in a hide if...
Richard Parker
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'What Makes us Different ?' by M.Lemonick et al. [Time 1.10.06] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1541283,00.html What Makes us Different ? by...
Mikey Brass
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Oct 3, 2006
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There seems to be a confusion here between sap and resin, which are two different things. Amber is (fossilised) resin from ancient conifers including...
maria guzman
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Fred's last name wouldn't be Flintstone, would it? Dave ... From: Richard Parker <richardparker01@...> To: palanthsci@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
David Timpe
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27958
It's true if, as he claims, Lucy is not the same species as the afarensis type specimen, from Laetoli, in which it would be a case of Johansen & White shooting...
David Timpe
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Oct 3, 2006
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... OK, Mr Flintstone, you've more or less convinced me: Earlier discovery of Neanderthal hafting: High-tech in the middle Palaeolithic: Neandertal-manfactured...
Richard Parker
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Oct 3, 2006
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And the site says the Finns also made birch tar that way, but it was used as a lubricant, not an adhesive. Maybe they just quit before it got to the adhesive...
David Timpe
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Oct 3, 2006
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27961
Ah, he's at it again. -- Robert A. Walker, Ph.D. Biological Anthropologist Anatomist Dean, Clinical Anatomy New York Chiropractic College 2360 State Route 89 ...
Robert Walker
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Oct 3, 2006
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Dr. Walker: It's my understanding that he's been "at it" for some 20 years now, at least. Anne G Ah, he's at it again. -- Robert A. Walker, Ph.D. Biological...
Anne Gilbert
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Oct 3, 2006
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Dear colleagues, The new, improved website www.PalArch.nl is now online, publishing the October 2006 issue. Unfortunately, issue has no papers, which is due to...
Natasja den Ouden
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Oct 3, 2006
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Elena; Hmmmmmm. . . .this raises another possibility the archaeologists haven't explored. Namely that Neandertals and/or early "moderns" learned how to make...
Anne Gilbert
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Oct 3, 2006
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Judging by the alders and birches around here, there are probably a lot more birches and they're larger trees. Paper birches, as most people are aware, are...
David Timpe
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Oct 3, 2006
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the palanthsci group. File :...
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All: The Files section has a new entry. I've uploaded a journal piece on variability in Neandertal occipital "bunning" which might interest some of you. It's...
Anne Gilbert
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Oct 3, 2006
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... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1541283,00.html What Makes usDifferent ? by Michael D. Lemonick,Andrea Dorfman, Time Magazine, Sunday,...
John Wilson
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