First of all: be aware that what is being critiqued is an English translation of a Norwegian popularised research magazine article containing an interview an...
Torfinn: Hopefully, the Norwegian translator did the best s/he could, I'm sure. The real problem is with the science reporters themselves. I don't know about...
... I'm sure the translator did the best he could, but there are meanings that can go very subtly wrong when translating between closely related languages. ...
Torfinn: Never fear. I assumed the best of the translator. I will take your word for it, since I've not heard of Yngve Vogt, that he's a good science...
First, a few rambling notes: Even as this film is set to hit theaters, "journalists" and such continue to repeat inane musings about how the Maya people ...
That's right Dan...I employed a worker from Zacatexas. He spoke no English and I spoke just enough Spanish at the time for work; in time we were able to...
Dear colleagues: First I would like to say hello to all list members and introduce myself since this is my first post to the list. I am a dentist with...
All: For those of you who don't know about it, John Hawks, a biological anthropology professor at the University of Wisconsin, has one of the best blogs on the...
Don't know about stronger or better, unless the term is restricted to very specific qualities,but it has been suggested that Indians were less able to develop...
Thanks for the link Anne. I wish people would stop acting like a fossil has to be possible direct ancestor to be of any issue or value, which was certainly the...
Here are a few "stinkers" from the movie: 1. The 4 leading characters are not even Mayas, though the film was billed as being all-Maya. What, Mayas weren't...
Biol Lett. 2006 Dec 22;2(4):505-8. Chimpanzee and felid diet composition is influenced by prey brain size. Shultz S, Dunbar RI. Prey use a wide variety of...
Important: Here is additional material refuting the Apocalypto film, which I just posted in another group. I was responding to someone who essentially said,...
Perhaps your cavalier antagonist, (including Mr. Gibson) might get the point if someone proposed making a movie depicting early Christian communities...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061213/sc_afp/turkeyarchaeologyagricult ure_061213073357 http://tinyurl.com/tcpqs 3,000-year-old dam revives farming in Turkish...
Good point. However, something is missing from that scenario. Perhaps if Christians today were in the same boat as the Mayas (repressed and severely...
Note: Not forwarding to the Paleoanthro group, as the thread has been declared "dead" there. Dan ... Hi Anthony, There are three main problems with that: 1....
... wrote: Woah. It's quotes like the one below, that prove the author doesn't know what she's talking about. The captives were not taken from "defenseless...
... the environment, the fearsome belief in omens tied to natural events, such as a solar eclipse. A final note: The brutality is one of the least realistic...
It appears that this didn't get forwarded the first time. Re- forwarding. Dan ... Hi Anthony, There are three main problems with that: 1. The film was heavily...
... Something I didn't mention before: The native Yucatec Maya speakers who watched the film with me, told me the actors were speaking Maya much too slowly in...
All: Whatever its merits, some of you might be interested in this story. http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1809514.htm?ancient Anne G ...
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