Greg Reeder Wrote:
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> Palden Jenkins the man who met the farmer says on
> his own web site that :
> "the teacher sent it to the British Museum for
> identification, and the reply returned that it was
> at least 5,000 years old and derived from specific
> rock deposits in Minnesota."
>
> Not Michiga
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I'm guessing you mean Göbekli Tepe. Not a civilization.
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It's been suggestged that this is a marketing campaign by iGENEA, a commercial genetic genealogy company selling DNA tests. Has Tutankhamun's Y-chromosome data have been published? this claim that he belonged to the haplogroup R1b1a2 isseems to be their interpretations of some data shown in a Discovery Channel documentary dealing with the attempts to sequence Tutankhamun's DNA. Wa
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Ancient Egypt
Greg Reeder Wrote:
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> Sorry Jacob your list of artifacts and Indian
> mounds is a very unimpressive lot of very bad
> scholarship. The purported Hebrew inscriptions
> have been dealt with again and again over the
> years. I think you know that. The Los Lunas
> inscription is a bit more sophisticated than much
> o
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I need an article from Science Magazine: Science 30 June 1989: Vol. 244 no. 4912 p. 1538
DOI: 10.1126/science.1538-a Sun Dagger Misses Its Mark JOSEPH PALCA
This Native American site has had a lot of media publicity but the dispute within the scientific community has had very little and I'm trying to ensure that Wikipedia articles don't ignore it. Thanks.
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
I don't know if people are familiar with Mark Rosenfelder's website "How likely are chance resemblances between languages?" Not perfect but pretty useful and interesting.
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
He's adding it to the Wikipedia article. It was published in the Journal of ethnopharmacology.
Another link for the article is
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Doug Weller
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Ancient Egypt
If anyone has this I'd appreciate a quote from it where he discusses Manisarus king of Gordyene and the accuracy of his title. Thanks.
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. Berlant/ Journal of Ethnopharmacology 102 (2005) 275–288 "argues that the story was evidently coined to esoterically allude to (1) the origin of the [] (hedjet), (2) its association with Osiris — the deified spirit of barley who first appeared during the 5th dynasty, and (3) the Triple Crown (hmhm), comprising the three White Crowns the deity Khenumu, “The King Maker”, characteristically c
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Ancient Egypt
Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> Hi Greg,
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>
> Local Indians told the then landowner Franz Huning
> in 1871 that the monument predated their tribes
> coming to the area.
>
> It was about 78 years after the local Indians made
> their claim it was able to be translated, since
> there Paleo-Hebrew was virtually u
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If anyone can get these for me it would be very useful:
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race. Pub:BJHS The British Journal for the History of Science Tim Murray. 28.n98 (Sept 1995): pp377(3).
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race. Pub:American Journal of Physical Anthropology Jonathan Marks. 93.n1 (Jan 1994): pp140(2).
Thanks.
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
It turns out to be the wrong name, but even the right person was just a Mexican playwright so I don't think it belongs there.
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
- it was a project for a Master's degree by the author. He also has a video. Note the claim for a Mexican origin for the Mississippian cultures of Georgia. Thanks.
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Ancient History
Ken Feder has written about this in his excellent Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum:
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
Thanks. The url is probably but they don't say much at all about Penon Woman.
Doug
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If anyone has this, what does it say about Penon Woman III?
Thanks
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bernard Wrote:
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> Doug Weller Wrote:
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> > I get the impression that she isn't
> suggesting
> > transatlantic trade, is that correct?
> > Thanks
> >
> > Doug Weller
> >
> > Director The Hall of Ma'at
>
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Doug Weller
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Ancient Egypt
fragments of tobacco found in 1976 in Paris in the abdominal cavity of the mummy of Ramses II as well the discovery of tobacco beetles found in Ramses II and the cave of Tutankhamen which supposedly are genetically exclusive to the Americas prior to Columbus.
etc.
Anything recent on this?
Doug
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Doug Weller
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What's the latest information on her?
Thanks
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Doug Weller
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Ancient History
I get the impression that she isn't suggesting transatlantic trade, is that correct?
Thanks
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Doug Weller
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Ancient Egypt
Has anyone read these?
Balabanova S, Rosing FW, Buhler G, et al.
Nicotine use in early Mediaeval Kirchheim / Teck, Germany
HOMO 52 (1): 72-76 2001
BALABANOVA S, PARSCHE F, BUHLER G, et al.
WAS NICOTINE KNOWN IN ANCIENT-EGYPT
HOMO 44 (1): 92-94 JUN 1993 #
BALABANOVA S, PARSCHE F, PIRSIG W
1ST IDENTIFICATION OF DRUGS IN EGYPTIAN MUMMIES
NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN 79 (8): 358-358 AUG
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Doug Weller
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Ancient Egypt
I've removed the scare quotes around the word 'professor' for Sarah Parcak as they might suggest she isn't a professor. On the other hand, due to the unusual way we give academic titles, Kate Spence is not a professor so we shouldn't suggest she is.
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Doug Weller
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Ancient Egypt
It's just that Wikipedia uses one spelling, someone wants to use the other, our guideline is we use the most common name.
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Doug Weller
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Ancient Egypt
Which is the more common spelling (and how do you figure that out?)?
Thanks.
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Doug Weller
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Ancient Egypt
Kirsten Seaver believes that the last of them may have ended up in North America - look for "Portuguese presence in the Newfoundland fisheries" in
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Ancient History