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Actually, there's some additional information you may want to consider. > I've reached the Predynastic Period (5500 - 3100 > BC), and it occurs to me what we today blandly > cover as ...." beginning in 5500 BC we find > evidence of organized, permanent settlements > focused around agriculture."... must have been a > huge struggle between the hierarchyby Byrd - Ancient History
Looks rather like Karstian type sinkholes. The subsurface of the ground might be limestone.by Byrd - Laboratory
Effendi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Going back to the topic, is it safe according to > your knowledge to say that end of the Maya Long > Count does not mean any pole shifts, galactic > superwaves, ice ages, mega super duper sun flares > and all those scary themes? NOne that the Maya recorded. They didn't have magnets and I'mby Byrd - Ancient History
A number of things grabbed my attention, here: Doug Weller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > During the meeting preliminary research results of > laboratory analysis, of terrain samples taken at > the sites “Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun“ and > “Bosnian Pyramid of the Moon” and fulfilled by the > Federal Authority of Agro-Pedology, have been &gby Byrd - Ancient History
Effendi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > By the way, why is it in so many ancient text > mentioned that the sun stood still or it rose from > east to the west on some moments in history. Is it > to be taken seriously, like Velikovsky suggested? I think that if you take the time to read ancient texts, you will find that none of them mention this.by Byrd - Ancient History
This is actually contrary to other research that shows this fear is a learned social behavior in monkeys (read about the studies in Temple Granden's book.) If monkeys encounter a snake in a group of monkeys that haven't seen a snake, there's little reaction. If they've seen the snake and they're in the company of a monkey who's fearful of snakes, then they will allby Byrd - Laboratory
What fun! I admit I've always detested Kent Hovind. I just love the line "Members of Creation Science Evangelism said at the time that building permits violated their "deeply held" religious beliefs." I'm pretty familiar with the Bible (several translations of it and like most of you, I can stumble through some of the Greek and the Latin) and I don't recallby Byrd - Laboratory
Effendi Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------. > It is all about about a global catastrophe that is > supposed to happen. I'm a bit aware of the > astronomy and I know this is probably impossible, > but I would like you to tell me if what I provide > is complete nonsense or truth. I think I can give you some help, here. The "disaster iby Byrd - Ancient History
(sigh) Yes, if you ignore all the other evidence and focus only on a few things then yes, you can make a case for just about anything. I suppose we humans have gone through this kind of nonsense before, though, and truth does survive.by Byrd - Ancient History
Road trip, anybody? A picture would be interesting!by Byrd - Ancient History
Haris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Byrd: > If you distinctly remember then you might be able > to provide some backing for it? Source? WHere to > find that infO? Never seen such a statement. > I'm thinking of the ones mentioned by Wikipedia: There was also a tour in April-ish by a group of professionals and Osmanagic announcby Byrd - Ancient History
Yes, we went to the night launch of Atlantis many years ago. The husband won a trip in one of those 'buy bonds, get a prize' sweepstakes at E-Systems. It was probably the only prize they EVER offered that we would have EVER wanted, and it was glorious! We got the "behind the scenes tour" (us and 90 other people) and sat in the grandstands... the ones you see with the hugeby Byrd - Coffee Shop
Mmmkayyyyy... Now, I'm the skeptical sort and I'm recently boning up on math (calculus, statistics, choice theory, etc) and I've got to ask what sort of mathematical model he was using to determine this. The recent "we are all one kind" sort of sounds like the 6,000 year creation population model where two parents beget 4 children and so on and so forth and everyone iby Byrd - Laboratory
Isn't this one the section that was identified as medieval pavement or Roman pavement? I will point out, though, that the layers of dirt underneath and above it add to the idea that it is NOT part of a pyramid. To make a pyramid like that, a large group of people would have had to carve away the mountain, and stack paving tiles like that in a pyramid shape around the mountain. But theby Byrd - Ancient History
Yup. Here in Texas, and among the regional native people, "AmerInd" was the preferred term. Disclaimer: My extensive knowledge of this is limited to reading material and meeting a few tribespeople here in Dallas (and two in California.) Because this isn't my area of study, I'm not familiar with what terms are currently in vogue or out of vogue. I could be hopelesslyby Byrd - Ancient History
Added this link for those who can't seem to find a tv station interested in carrying the video of the launch:by Byrd - Coffee Shop
The chronology I'm familar with (thanks to my recent course in AmerInds) is that the Na-Dene come into America within the last 7,000 - 5,000 years and are a fairly recent migration. The Wikipedia article agrees with what I was taught about the language centers for this family of languages: Ruhlen ties the language in with an older languge, Ket, but I note he's not a linguistby Byrd - Ancient History
John Wall Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > According to Bietak the pumice is in a Tuthmosis > III/Hatshepsut stra at Tell ed Daba. > ...what does this imply? My understanding of location and date here is very weak.by Byrd - Ancient History
Also, since it got sent out to job lists, I bet it's lurking on yahoogroups or listserves. I'm just feeling too lazy to go hunt it up at the moment.by Byrd - Ancient History
The other one is Nick Yee, with his Daedalus Project -- though now that I look at it, he's not an anthropologist. My bad!!! I did, however, source him in recent papers and I like his approach (talking about his research and allowing comments.) It's a model I'm going to use in my PhD dissertation research. (Daedalus is just plain fun to read) (his homepage)by Byrd - Ancient History
It could be worse. You could be one of the system wizards for World of Warcraft (she says, whining because Warcraft is down for standard updates today and I *NEED* to get back on and turn in that cotton-picking quest!) (that's gotta be an eye-crosser of a job. 6 million users worldwide, 90 or so servers, and a population that varies from angsty 13 year olds to crotchety 80 year olds....by Byrd - Ancient History
Yes, I've seen those mass announcements on some of the professional lists that I haunt. I think Osmanagic's response should be a cautionary tale. ...and a warning to all of us that if a job posting comes from a MSN.COM or other free email site, ya might wanna look at a few CV's on the original poster. Just in case.by Byrd - Ancient History
I'd noticed it getting out of hand and obliviously overlooked the 'report message' button. Now that I see it, I'll use it next time this gets out of hand. (a moderator's job is NEVER done!)by Byrd - Ancient History
...I'm not sure they could find any artifacts larger than a bread box. Now, I realize I'm being unkind and that I'm going on the officially released photos only and my experience in one archaeology class and at one dig. But I only recall one photo of sifting screens at work. On a hillside like that (which has been used for many things), they should be finding all sorts of stufby Byrd - Ancient History
Most recent data, based on an olive tree branch, is about 1600 BC: This would tend to back up the claims by Stanley and Cheng about the layer of ash they found in the Nile Delta and dated to about 3,500 years ago:by Byrd - Ancient History
Yes, those are the ones I remember reading about, and the gait sounds exactly like what we see in the Turkish group. We have too little information about the Turkish group to see if they favored other means of locomotion when they were younger, but I would bet that they did. If this is the case, then I believe if we looked at long term care facilities for the mentally handicapped here in theby Byrd - Ancient History
I've seen many news reports like this (saying it's just a hill and not a pyramid) by professionals who visited the site: In fact, I distinctly remember that he invited a number of experts to view the tunnels and THEY said they were manmade but not part of a pyramid structure. His invited Egyptian experts also said the same thing. So did Hawass, who added that the Egyptian &quoby Byrd - Ancient History
I know I'm a crotchety old skeptic, but speaking as a former network administrator and a spammer hunter, it's awfully easy to fake email. Got something with headers or an original source? And where did it come from -- are you the email admin for the Bosnian group (not being snarky, here... I honestly don't know what your role is)?by Byrd - Ancient History
I've only been on one dig in my entire life (Texas Archaeological Society), and I think we volunteers would have been told to "go home!" in no uncertain terms if we'd been doing a job like that.by Byrd - Ancient History
Either they're digging up bedrock -or- they're tossing out medieval/Roman material as "trash." ...or aliens swooped down and "sanitized" the site after all the people left. Yeah -- that's the ticket!by Byrd - Ancient History