Anne, The "reindeer moss" are the lichens I mentioned before. Most animals, including most other deer, and humans for that matter, cannot digest them, but...
I do hope you have a good trip, although I'm of the camp that Lucy should still be in Ethiopia. Ironically when I was in Addis, even though Lucy was still...
... <snip> ... <snip> Dale: Modern caribou include the "Peary" or "Peary's" pygmy variety, which never see woodland; the tallest tree in their range is the...
Ed: Well, it won't be much of a "trip". Only from my residence (in Seattle), to the Pacific Science Center(near downtown Seattle)! To be absolutely honest, I...
Dave: They are, as they say, "translating" her holy remains. Anne G The problem is, Lucy is the one that seems to be going on a pilgrimage. An unusual...
... do you? ... (Tried to post this once but it didn't appear. Apologies if it suddenly surfaces in duplicate.) Anne, Absolutely not! I am deeply envious - if...
Hi Daryl, This paper may provide a bit different outlook for both of us. If anybody has a copy to upload, it would be greatly appreciated, otherwise its $32...
... Â "I do not think you can directly translate true arctic climate to temperate latitudes regardless of how similar the average cold ranges might have...
Paul and all: I'm not sure, never having been there, but isn't Tasmania pretty much a "maritime" climate? What that would tend to mean in Pleistocene terms...
Ross: Well, I'm certainly not going to throw the objectivity of science out the window when I go to gaze upon Lucy's remains. OTOH, I can't suppress a certain...
I just popped in to look at Hobart, Tasmania on Weather Underground (mainly to check it's latitude, 42 point something South), and the temperature there and...
... (mainly ... temperature there ... directions, ... do in the ... You're right, although Tassie highlands aren't that high. If you want cold & wet though,...
... There were glaciers in Tasmania & as I understand it, there were also more grasslands present after the Pleistocene. The sea level rise cut Tasmania off...
I've seen estimates of 10,000 at the time of European settlement as well. Wild guesses, I suspect. Estimates of prior populations are probably worse, but a...
... <wolf_thunder51@...> wrote: <snip> ... not have all the strength of an interglacial due to Milankovic cycles and/or radiation variability, but it will...
Anne, that's true, and that's part of my point. The presence of glaciers is not necessarily an indication of extreme cold necessitating good clothing for...
The Tasmanian West coast does what it wants, basically. Commonly wild, wet and windy. They had a white Chistmas in Queenstown one year - and remember, this...
One strange thing about post-PLeistocene Tasmania: around 6,000 years ago, fish disappear from the midden records, and into modern times they never caught...
True, and in part of the Milankovic cycle, increased insolation is associated with glacial advance - all the more reason not to automatically assume that...
Jared Diamond ascribes some of the cultural simplification to a loss of population so individuals with special talents to carry on traditions would be harder...
Paul: Though I once knew a fellow who had lived for years in some arctic or subarctic part of Alaska, and went around in a thin t-shirt in the middle of...
... of ... would ... in ... resources to ... the ... thread ... If it's ... years ... they ... the ... There have been some discussions about this in some of...
... well. ... worse, ... reason. ... knows ... Mainland aborigines in southern Victoria, the Tasmanians' nearest neighbours, were well-know for their possum...
Yeah. I didn't realize Diamond was unaware that it was only scaked fish the Tasmanians wouldn't eat, and their canoes (if that's the word) are well known....
Not to mention that early Tasmanians also had needles, which were lacking when the Europeans arrived. Another one of the curious simplifications of their...
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