prehistory

Welcome to the 'prehistory' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'prehistory'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “prehistory”

• Cannibal holocaust

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 740
  "Heads were skinned and muscles removed from the brain case in order to remove the skullcap. Incisions and scrapes on jaws indicate that tongues were cut out." "Scrape marks inside the broken ends of limb bones indicate that marrow was removed." "Whatever actually happened at Herxheim, facial bones were smashed beyond ...
  4 days ago

• Monolith

  
  Authspot — Authority: 561
  Giant rock, a great monolith Sits atop of yonder mound Subject of an ancient myth Known near and far around Dragged there we are told By people wracked with fear In a most distant time of old Ere did modern man appear The mound is still older yet Dirt piled on a royal tomb A monument, lest one forget To violate ...
  1 week ago

• Hey, that’s us!

  
  SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog — Authority: 124
  It’s been two days at the 19th Indo-Pacific Prehistory Congress at Hanoi and it’s been a massive gathering with lots of great meet-ups. The opening ceremony yesterday was quite big – I found it quite cool that the former president of Vietnam (Tran Duc Long) is also the president of the Vietnam Association of ...
  1 week ago

• Journey to 10,000 B.C.

  
  The Discovery Enterprise — Authority: 427
  Today on Discovery Enterprise we journey to the year 10,000 BC and experience the suspense and heart-pounding action of a woolly mammoth hunt. A single kill could feed the tribe for weeks. As the winters grow curiously colder and longer, this vital source of nourishment becomes even more critical. Experience the land ...
  1 week ago

• News update for gomphothere junkies

  
  Christopher Moore's Canadian History — Authority: 129
  First evidence that "Clovis" people, the first confirmed human inhabitants of North America (only some 13,000 years ago) hunted and butchered the gomphothere , a pretty wierd, elephant-like beast that was part of the North American Pleistocene megafauna that disappeared very rapidly just about that time. Wikipedia ...
  2 weeks ago

• Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  So I was looking on the internet for something else, and as it often happens, I came across something unrelated to what I was looking for but which nonetheless had value for another problem that I pondered on several moons ago, the origin of the intervening PIE sibilant in a sequence of adjacent dental plosives *-TT- ...
  2 weeks ago

• Prehistory Study: List of Topics

  
  In Need Of Chocolate — Authority: 416
  From January-May, we’ll be concentrating on prehistory for our science and history studies. You’ll find the tentative booklist for our prehistory study here . This is a list of topics we plan to cover in our prehistory study. Some of these we’ve already done a lot of reading on and others will be new areas of ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Brief Prehistory Lesson

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 534
  A Brief PreHistory Lesson by Lew Sethics Wolf  calls a meeting with Man: “Look” he says, “you need us: you can’t hunt for shit, you got no claws, your teeth are useless in a fight, you can’t outrun anything, your sense of smell is a joke, your women and children slow you down. We’ll make a deal: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinese Scientists Launch New Challenge to ‘Out of Africa’ Theory

  
  Arthur Kemp's Blog — Authority: 109
  Chinese scientists have renewed their ongoing attack on the ‘Out of Africa’ theory of the origin of modern humans with the announcement of the discovery of a 110,000-year-old putative Homo sapiens jawbone from a cave in southern China’s Guangxi province. The date of the early human fossil is one of the most ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Largest Ever” Neolithic Rondels discovered in Czech Republic

  
  Arthur Kemp's Blog — Authority: 109
  What has been described as the “largest ever” Neolithic rondel enclosures have been discovered in the Czech Republic. A roudel enclosure is a circular earthwork which was probably fortified and served as a base camp or settlement during the Neolithic era (4000 BC to 2200 BC). Over 100 rondel enclosures have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tibetan Yogis on film

  
  Institute of Jurassic Technology — Authority: 414
  Ran across this archival footage on Boing Boing . A Frenchmen named Arnaud Desjardins took the images, they are just scenes from the movie " Message of the Tibetans ." I am posting the third video of the series, because its such a visual trip. To see the eyes of the yogis as they practice is quite a thing. It ...
  3 weeks ago

• Found Fossils, Dinosaurs and the History of Extinction

  
  History Blog — Authority: 119
  Though the term “fossil” – a derivation of the Latin word for “dug up” — was first used in 16th century France, the petrified impressions of centuries old flora and fauna — including some of what later come to be known as dinosaurs — have been known to man, though wholly misunderstood, since the dawn ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mother Goddess: When Women Ruled The World?

  
  BeyondJane — Authority: 414
  ?No doubt we’ve all heard or read about the statues or figurines of large-breasted, pot-bellied, so-called mother goddesses found at neolithic sites such as Catal Huyuk, in Anatolia. But do these fascinating figures provide proof of a matriarchal, goddess-worshiping culture in pre-history? This question not only ...
  4 weeks ago

• Spirit Desire

  
  RubberSuit Studios Headlines and News — Authority: 128
  No Plugs Swine Flu Updates So, my son went back to school today, feeling much better, so is my wife.  I got a call on my cell from my client with Stiff Person Syndrome .  She has had some issues with the flu the past few weeks, and called me today telling me she was having issue breathing and was a bit ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Inca Empire - Part II The Army

  
  History Blog — Authority: 119
  Like other aspects of government and social organization, the military defense of the Inca Empire was well ordered and highly planned. The majority of evidence of warfare comes from the archaeological record which shows the high level of preparation. While the Inca capital city itself, Cuzco, was not surrounded by ...
  5 weeks ago

• A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  I like to explore new ideas and test them as always. One of my ever-evolving ideas is on the idea that Indo-European and Aegean are related to a common Proto-Indo-Aegean ancestor datable to 7000 BCE. Or so Ive been thinking up to now but...I decided to explore a radical new extrapolation thats got a grip on my mind ...
  5 weeks ago

• Death Match Two: Post-game wrap-up…

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 128
  A recap in the language most accessible to our American audience:So far, Capital easily dominated the preliminaries, with the Proles and Owners of Capital on one side trouncing the Aristocracy and the Peasantry in a match up that rocked the European continent for several decades. The going was tough in the early ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Inca Empire - Part I Administration

  
  History Blog — Authority: 119
  The Inca empire reached its peak in the 1500s, after emerging in under a century. From 1470 they ruled from their capital Cuzco, a vast area that reached the practicable limits of its expansion with the Amazonian rainforest to the east and the Andes to the south. The empire was highly organized, divided into ...
  5 weeks ago

• Entertaining the Troops

  
  Days on the Claise — Authority: 128
  While Kippa and Ben were here we took them to see La Gargantua, a prehistoric monument not very far from Preuilly.A herd of dairy cows was occupying the field next to the car park, and Kippa entertained himself by showing them a dance routine. As you can see there was a range of reactions from the cows...The scene ...
  5 weeks ago

• Searching for an etymology for Germanic *handuz hand

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  First, lets get nonsense out of the way by letting a published author state the obvious about origins of the Proto-Germanic etymon *handuz hand that are most implausible yet unfortunately popular among idle hobbyists online. In the words of A. Seidenberg in km, a widespread root for ten (1976): "The effort to relate ...
  6 weeks ago

Comments about prehistory