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Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> IOW, no matter what the tools look like (dating
> controversies aside), you either have a choice of
> Clovis people first or proto-Clovis people first.
> There are now no other options left...thanks to
> DNA. Using the term "pre-Clovis" is out-of-date
> in 2018.
>
At a minimum, Clovis-era DNA reproduced successfully down to modern
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Difficult to have an advanced civilization without a significant population base and that would require organized agriculture and specialization. Conversely, if the H. sapiens species is at least 300kya, why didn't civilization arise in prior interglacial periods like our own Holocene? Poor planning?
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Roxana, if you want one for a pet you'll need about 40 acres and a huge pooper scooper.
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> He does look like a Mongol, doesn't he?
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> Oh, and--Since when are the Yanomami people
> uncontacted?
Along those lines, whose to say there wasn't a Spaniard in the woodpile sometime over the last few hundred years?
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I just think the "bearded" man is interesting and doesn't "prove" anything. He resembles a European, but that could simply be coincidence. The odds of the Norse making it to Mexico are essentially zilch. It is possible; however, highly unlikely.
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Jammer Wrote:
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> I would like to see some evidence of the Native
> Americans experiencing diseases brought to the
> Maya by the Vikings included bubonic plague,
> chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera,
> diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever,
> smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and/or whooping
> cough.
&g
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Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> If it's a Lucy, maybe she swung on trees all the
> way?
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> And since she maybe was a tree swinger, when she
> got to open water she got there just like monkeys
> got to South America.
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Interesting sarcasm, Lee. What's your take on the foot's morphology?
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It has been known for more than a decade that the Hobbit's foot morphology looks nothing like H sapiens or H erectus:
I doubt that dwarfism could ever result in such a radical change. Those Hobbit feet look more like A afarensis. Maybe Lucy walked all the way to Indonesia?
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According to my father-in-law, who was full Quechua (an Purdue graduate engineer fluent in Quechua, Spanish and English), Khipus were used to record virtually everything in the empire, from bean counting to political events. Reading the strings died out with the introduction of Christianity and paper. The information contained in the Khipus just wasn't considered important, and besides ...
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Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Given what smallpox did to the native american
> population when it was introduced by later
> colonists it seems unlikely it was spread earlier
> by the Vikings.
Good point. However, if the Norse presence in North America was limited to Labrador across the Davis Strait, then the disease entry point
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From a blog on a different site:
The Western Settlement was about 200 miles north of Greenland's Eastern Settlment, it was much smaller and far more remote with an apex population of about 1,000 or so while the Eastern Settlement achieved up to 5,000 inhabitants at its high point. The Western Settlement's proximity to the Disko Bay hunting grounds and Baffin Island made its location
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Interesting article, Allan. Pat Sutherland has been working the Canadian Arctic for many years. Nice that she found a crucible at the Nanook site.
Greenland's Western Settlement was abandoned circa 1342 with those Norse most likely crossing the Davis Strait into Canada ... they certainly did not return to the Eastern Settlement since those Norse were looking for them, nor did they retur
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WVK Wrote:
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> Echos from footsteps on El Castillo sound like
> rain drops into a bucket. Above one of the
> staircases is a chac (rain god) mask.
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I went up and down the steps of Castillo a few times with others and never noticed an echo from my footsteps, or those of anyone else. As I recall, a reclining Chac is in the temple at the top.
However, the steps are quite
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Geotio Wrote:
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> The most obvious example of this type of mistake
> is Lockyer's dating of Stonhenge to 1680 BC .
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Or Robert Bauval's dating the pyramids at Giza to 10,500BC.
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Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> Pat,
> If the bones of a 4 yr old are too fragile why not
> try for DNA from the teeth? I would point out DNA
> was recovered from Anzick (18 months old but a
> cooler environment).
>
Allan, the teeth are a great source of mitochondrial DNA, apparently being about 100 times more abundant tha
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Jammer Wrote:
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> Cognito Wrote:
> > Interesting to the point where the mtDNA
> could be
> > Aurignacian, Gravettian, or something else
> > entirely. The Neanderthal genetic
> contribution to
> > the child's autosomal DNA could provide
> answers to
> > the estimated date of initial hybri
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Hi Lee, here is Dr. Arrizabalaga's response:
"By the time we wrote this paper, we considered that the Lagar Velho Child issue was largely superseded by the new genetic information that established that interbreeding occurred in the Middle East, before AMH entered into Europe. Besides, the chronology of the finding (Gravettian) is far away from the chronological framework used in the
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As opposed to continuing a back-and-forth debate, I emailed Dr. Arrizabalaga directly for his take on the Lagar Velho child. Hopefully, he will provide some insight as to why that discovery was not referenced. Regardless, his group's field and lab work appear to be thoughtful, carefully conducted and documented; demonstrating an 8 to 10,000 year hiatus between moderns and Neanderthals at the
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Lee Olsen Wrote:
> It might be interesting, but it would not tell you
> anymore about where the inbreeding took place than
> it would testing my ancestry. I was born in the
> US, but my immediate ancestors were from Europe
> and that migration to the US happened a long time
> after Neanderthals were gone.
> Same for Aurignatian or Gravettian, they brought
> their
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Yes, Allan. I am also surprised that Wood et al could make the statement that moderns and Neanderthals never mixed on the Iberian Peninsula while failing to discuss the discovery of the Lagar Velho (Portugal) child dated to about 24,500bp with features indicating that it was a hybrid. See: . That is a serious research oversight.
I do not believe anyone has yet attempted to extract DNA from th
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This could be a very important milestone for regenerative medicine. See:
"By manipulating the appropriate signaling, the U.Va. researchers have turned embryonic stem cells into a fish embryo, essentially controlling embryonic development."
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Incredibly interesting presentation. Thank you!
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Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> I am willing to accept that the founding
> haplogroups were isolated from their Asian
> relatives but that isolation could have ocurred
> south of the ice as opposed to Berigia.
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The above makes far more sense to me than the Beringia hypothesis:
Siberians supposedly migrated 0.6km/yea
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From: Marcus J. Hamilton and Briggs Buchanan
"METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:
We use diffusion models to quantify these dynamics. Our results show the expansion originated in the Altai region of southern Siberia approximately 46kBP , and from there expanded across northern Eurasia at an average velocity of 0.16 km per year. However, the movement of the colonizing wave was not conti
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Hopefully, there will be human bones found in situ, satisfactory for dating. It is a fascinating site.
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Am I to believe that people settled in Beringia for 10,000 years, including the duration of the Last Glacial Maximum, without moving on to warmer areas? And that the evidence is now under water?
Anyone here ever spent a winter in Alaska during the balmier Holocene? There's no daylight and it's really, really cold.
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I still remember from 7th Grade when my teacher asked a student who wasn't paying attention, "Scott, tell me. When was the War of 1812?"
Scott had no clue, but he did become famous forever after.
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From the article: "... dating to approximately 500,000 years ago, as well as a phallus shaped object coated with traces of ocre ..."
Is someone's imagination running amuck?
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Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> The bar is at the same height as it has been since Folsom.
> "In summary, we must not lower the bar for evaluating
> pre-Clovis sites. Any potential pre-Clovis site must
> meet the scientific criteria by which Folsom and Clovis
> were judged (Waters 2000)."
> Michael R. Waters
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Lee Olsen Wrote:
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> Cognito Wrote:
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> However, I'm
> > now curious about how much progress they
> have
> > made.
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> If they ever publish a comprehensive site report
> on Calico, I'll buy you dinner (with a bottle) and
>
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