Its unnerved me walking through there two. From two different angles:
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Ancient History
Excuse the source (despite the apparent url, it is not funny), but I thought this animation was interesting.
Apologies to Kat, I wasn't sure where to place this thread.
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Ancient History
N 30 49 18.34
E 31 43 17.20
That building to the north is a school. To the south east (in the trees) we found New Kingdom pottery. Yet the site we were digging at was purely proto/pre-dynastic.
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Ancient History
I wish I had the money for a certain someone's birthday coming up. I've done a beginner's course in Middle Egyptian, but the Prof teaching Intermediate was horrible so I passed it up (which I regret). Are you going to be offering Intermediate and Advanced Middle Egyptian? Maybe some Old Kingdom down the road?
Congrats on the Ph.D!!
Are you still living in Cairo?
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Ancient History
Sunset from the Pizza Hut across the street from the Sphinx is fantastic too.
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Ancient History
I don't think the HSS population at any time during the HSN's time was dense enough to kill them off in a struggle for territory. Europe has supported millions HSS for thousands of years, why wouldn't the HSN just find new territory. If Home Erectus was smart enough to migrate out of Africa during times of hardship, surely HSN was capable of migrating to find new sources of food
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Ancient History
Someone who used to post over at Guardians a few years ago tried to hide in one of the rock cut tombs on the eastern edge of the plateau and spend the night. The guards found her there, so they probably inspect the place pretty well.
What happends if you get caught up there after hours? I've never been brave enough to try.
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Ancient History
I saw you already answered that in response to Kat's question.
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Ancient History
Excellent photos as usual, Jon.
The corner in the B&W photo looks like its further to the north east than the one you photographed, did you try looking there?
Where did you find those black and white photos?
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Ancient History
Yet at sometimes grafitti because historical. Look at Roman and Greek inscriptions on Egyptian monuments, for example, relating the story of their vacation in Egypt. To some degree even Victorian contributions add a sense of history to the monuments, even if they did cause some damage.
When does it make the transition from mindless vandalism to, sometimes, imporant historical additions?
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Thanks for that.
Weren't there Erctus in Java longer than Africa? Did these not overlap with s.sapiens?
I realize they didn't have contact with each other.
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Ancient History
Well, lets not beat around the bush here. There is no inherent morality to our species. We eat our own today, I'm sure we have in the past. When it comes to a food shortage, all predators do, so lets not flatter ourselves. I'm sure we ate each other in the paleolithic.
With that established, lets be careful. Human remains (including neanderthal) from this era are are hard to com
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Ancient History
LOL, you're being difficult. In terms of taxonomy you're right. DNA doesn't make mistakes though and taxonomy does. I'll try to be more clear, though I thought the gist of my question was clear from the beginning.
We did not evolve from Neanderthals and they did not evolve from us. We both, it is believed, evoloved from a common source, be it Homo Erectus, Homo heidelber
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Has there been a study done on population decline over time? Is it possible with the amount of specimens we currently have? Do we have a Neanderthal population centre from which we can draw the numbers, or were they too migratory?
Forgive me for asking such basic questions to which there are likely well known answers, but I've only briefly dipped into the paleolithic.
Maybe a good wa
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Ancient History
Fair enough, but current evolutionary theory has it that H.S.neanderthalis and H.S.sapiens both evolved from the common H.Erectus source (heidelbergesis?), right?
Would it not occur, then, that we share more genetic material with that source than we do with H.S.neanderthalis?
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Ancient History
In the scale of time, yes, we're further away from Erectus, but we're closer to them genetically than Neanderthal, are we not?
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Ancient History
Yup, like I said it was an old bookmark, but lots of neat stuff there. Decent pics too.
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Ancient History
Seasons 2003/2004 (Winter) and 2004/2005 (Winter) can be found here: and here: respectively.
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Ancient History
What about H.Erectus and S.Sapiens?
I guess that opens a new can of worms.
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Ancient History
I'm organizing my favourites and came across one that is a little old (3 years) but a very interesting read that some may have missed.
Pharaonic cultural origins in the Libyan Desert? Evidence indicating Khufu had a reign of 27+ years? A discovery of a new Archaic culture? The world's oldest map? Insights into Ahmose's military tactics against the Hyskos?
All of these are
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Ancient History
Don,
You should be able to steal a few measurements out of my old essay, here:
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Ancient History
Anything about the maturity of the skeletons?
Neanderthals and Sapiens Sapiens must have produced offspring at some time or another if they were genetically compatible. They occupied the same territories and interacted with one another, so I'm sure it happened. But has any study been conducted to find out whether or not these offspring would have been fertile?
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Ancient History
LOL, even making new discoveries that support your position can be a pain in the butt and very, very time and energy consuming.
I've regretted finding new pottery, or even burials, knowing the amount of work it was going to take to process it. But its all necessary.
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Ancient History
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, or Egyptology.
Where are you?
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Ancient History
There is more than one of these statues on the streets in Cairo. You pass a few of Rameses II on your way into the city from the airport, around Heliopolis if I remember correctly.
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Ancient History
Talyor's book has been out for awhile now.
Perhaps he received an advanced copy? Its not odd for publishers to mail out advanced copies to website admins. I've received a few from my old website, and I'm sure Katherine has as well.
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Paper Lens
Who are you addressing, Joanne?
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Paper Lens
I was on the ice with Gordie Howe and Bobby Orr on TSN. Thats all I got.
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Paper Lens