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Well as they say, better late than never. On the other hand the descendants of some Salem witches went to considerable lengths for generations to get their ancestors' conviction overturned. It mattered to the descendants - and who knows maybe it mattered to the wrongfully convicted as well.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Nobody as far as I know. Which of course means there's no reason why little Homo Florensis might not have one. I am agnostic on the subject of canine souls...cats on the other hand.....by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Cicely has already responded, but I need to also point out that I can comprehend the concept but don't believe that there is such a thing. Belief is not a criteria And you're right, we are drifting towards dangerous ground.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
My sweet little calico - a former stray - is one of the most neurotic cats I know. The doorbell, a car horn, a strange voice in the house are all enough to send her into a panic and under the recliner.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Clearly this guy not only hates religion but has a very weak grasp of it. Living Homo Floriensis would definitely belong to our animal family, the Homonids, if not our species. The stone tools and firemaking prove they were/are smarter than chimps but we'll have to wait till we meet them to find out how humanlike their intelligence is; do they have language? are they self aware?by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
That's what makes the possibility of surviving 'Little People' so exciting, another living Hominid species. Unfortunately I don't think it's particularly likely.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
What it all boils down to is a number of people telling varying stories any of whom could be lying. If you want to believe a 'stone age' tribe could live two and a half miles from the nearest village for some hundred and fifty years before being discovered by a lone hunter then go ahead. Personally I find that scenario somewhat unlikely. Especially given the presumed semi-nomadby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
So the 'Tasaday' who said they were villagers persuaded into playing cavemen by Elizalde are lying. Possible of course. BTW my source for that is Hemley's book, and Hemley is definitely pro-Tasaday. BTW you are no doubt aware that Manuel Elizalde, that valiant defender of indigine rights, was one of the first Marcos supporters to flee - with the funds intended for said peoby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
But how can you tell flying pink elephant folklore from that with a factual base until and unless hard evidence is found. Nobody was looking for the Little People but they found them. Contrarywise dozens if not hundreds of people have been searching for Bigfoot and Yeti for something like fifty years and found squat. Folklore is mythmaking and entertainment. Sometimes it is factualby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Why were there no middens? Why were the stone 'tools' so hopelessly inept? Paleolithic Man was nothing if not a good stone tool maker! Even more interestingly why did they wear no ornaments? No jewelry, no paint, no tatoos, no scarification. Homo Sapiens Sapiens are positively addicted to decorating themselves. The biggie no fire!!! Coerced villagers or coerced hunter gathererby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
"Yesterday if I suggested on this board that there was a little guy running around some Indonesian Islands based on some local folklore there are some wwho would have characterized that as inaccurate generalisations. Hoaxes and fraud and other less subtle views would have been stated." And quite rightly. Folklore is not evidence. Bones are. It's as simple as that. Find meby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
The 'Gentle Tasaday' may have been villagers recruited for a deliberate deception or a band of actual rainforest dwellers who were persuaded to disguise their long standing trade and social ties with neighboring villages but either way they were *not* a pure paleolithic survival untouched by modern society as advertised. I call that a hoax. Come on; a cave that showed no trace oby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
You mean you missed it? Though to be fair it's the Afrocentrics not Blacks as a group. Yes Indiginous South American culture has joined the list. There used to be an article on the subject on the Maat site, I don't know if it made the move though.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Agreed but try telling that to someone who has seen a ghost ... on more than one occassion. I am not referring to myself BTW. But I have. Well more like heard one, but there was that vague white shape and the silhouette in the bright pink print dress....I'm like Father Brown, just because I believe doesn't mean I believe *everything*. > I might add that I wouldn't wilby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
The key word here being 'almost'. Let's just say that while not dogmatically opposed to the paranormal explanation I can't help seeing that there is a possible natural explanation. I might add that I wouldn't willingly enter a house occupied only by a corpse for any but the most pressing reasons - and even then reluctantly!by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Actually phone calls from the dead are not unprecedented - though this is the first mobile phone case I've heard of - see 'Phone Calls From the Dead' by D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless for some really great ghost stories - you don't have to believe them to enjoy them. I wonder if somebody could have been having a little malicious fun at the Thew family's expense?by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
According to my Encyclopedia Britannica 'trismegistos' means 'thrice greatest' so there weren't necessarily three 'Hermes' at all but just one who was really great.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I see they're citing scholars whose work is a hundred years old or older - always a bad sign. On the other hand they are undoubtedly right about the Israelites not existing in a cultural vacuum.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
My best guess would be that the headless, handless men were enemies mutilated so has to be unable to endanger the ruler in the afterlife.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
The Welsh tendency to quarrel among themselves was a major contributor to their loss of Britain. However raiding certainly did occur, maybe they weren't a 'threat' - by Offa's Time - but they certainly were a dangerous and expensive nuisance fully justifying the manpower needed to build the dike.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
You don't spend the kind of manpower it took to build Offa's Dike on a 'monument to utter contempt' any more than the Great Wall of China was a monument to contempt for the tribesmen beyond it. The Han undoubtedly did feel contempt for the Barbarian - but also a healthy dose of fear.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Scotland may not have had much impact on history as a nation but *Scotsmen* certainly have - at least here in America where a really astonishing number of Frontiersmen, inventors, and entrepreneurs have been of Scottish descent. And suggesting that Offa's dike was not built to defend against a genuine military threat is just plain crazy.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
That's it! Now how could I forget a city named for King Tantalus?by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Just as likely. If I recall correctly both the Persians and the Spartans were heavily mythologized by their Athenian contemporaries. An early example of a persistant Western tendency to project their own ideals onto an unfamiliar culture.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
The thing is Bill as far as I've ever been able to find out there is not one jot of corroborating evidence for an 'Atlantis' legend predating Plato's in Egypt or anywhere else. Thus there is not one good reason to believe the Egyptian priests told this or any other story to Solon who passed it down to his descendant Critias. As I pointed out above the Greeks would scarby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Better than the evidence for the Egyptian priests/Solon story.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I was thinking more of Thera as a possible source for some of his details of Atlantean life and history. Sounds like the destruction part may have been based on Helike.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Considerably less wild than finding 'Atlantis' in Antarctica or South America! It seems to me very likely that the disastrous loss of Helike gave Plato the idea for a lost continent.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History