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• Tibetan Yogis on film

  
  Institute of Jurassic Technology — Authority: 415
  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 ...
  14 hours ago

• Found Fossils, Dinosaurs and the History of Extinction

  
  History Blog — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Mother Goddess: When Women Ruled The World?

  
  BeyondJane — Authority: 123
  ?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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

• The Inca Empire - Part II The Army

  
  History Blog — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  2 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 ...
  2 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Inca Empire - Part I Administration

  
  History Blog — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  2 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 ...
  2 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mastodon Tusk May Be Largest Ever Uncovered in NYS

  
  New York History — Authority: 134
  Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State. The nearly complete but fragmented tusk, measuring more than nine feet long, was one of two excavated this past summer in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  Recently a commenter brought up the "PIE ergative theory" and this was woven into another idea about Indo-Europeans purported connection with North-West Caucasian in remote prehistory. I dont have a problem with the idea that PIE might have had contact with NWC (note: not a genetic relationship, just contact). If a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Texas State Dinosaur an affront to creationists

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 499
  Texas has a new State Dinosaur. Scientists are working to make a good model of the beast for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, as reported in the October 6 Fort Worth Star-Telegram (often referred to locally as the “Startle-gram,” but still one of America’s good-to-great newspapers).  David ...
  3 weeks ago

• Manthropology isn’t exactly science

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 162
  In a stunning example of what happens when you mix science with unquestioned social constructions, an Australian anthropologist has put together a book called Manthropology: The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male. John Mehaffey, who wrote the Reuters article about it, calls the subtitle “provocative”. I call it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prehistoric isoglosses in Proto-Steppe

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  As you can see, Ive been pondering on Proto-Steppe today. Many people refer to this early hypothetical language set most sensibly around 9,000 BCE as Indo-Uralic and its called this because its the common ancestor of both Proto-Uralic (PU) and Proto-Indo-European (PIE) afterall. However I still prefer my own term ...
  4 weeks ago

• Modern Mayans: 2012 ‘end of the world scenario’ false

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  One of the current paranoid and alarmist propaganda circulating the globe is the alleged end of the world in 2012, as prophesied by the ancient Maya. The Mayan calendar will supposedly ‘run out’ on December 21, 2012. Also, it is said that the Maya had a talent for astronomy. To top that, ‘some say the Maya knew ...
  4 weeks ago

• Collapse of the Maya Civilization: The Maya Deforested Themselves to Oblivion

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  According to NASA-funded research, the disappearance of the ‘once vibrant Maya society, dubbed as ‘one of the greatest demographic disasters in human prehistory,’ was due to the Maya themselves. According to veteran archeologist Tom Sever, “They did it to themselves.” The Maya flourished in Central America ...
  4 weeks ago

• Blogger lynchmobs - Get out the pitchforks!

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  Given recent comments, lets overtly explain what my intentions are as a blogger and how I moderate my blog against the general intrusions of internet nonsense. Paleoglot discusses comparative linguistics (most often on Proto-IE and ancient Aegean languages), but I will often speculate about things that are of interest ...
  4 weeks ago

• Life on the Fringe: Shrews and Voles Reveal Clues to British Prehistory

  
  The Spittoon — Authority: 483
  Through the millennia wave after wave of migrants – often in the form of invading armies – have descended upon the British Isles. The first people to arrive after the Ice Age were hunter-gatherers who followed their prey north from southern Europe about 12,000 years ago. The Celts came from central Europe about ...
  6 weeks ago

• The diffusion of the Italian terms for wine from Etruscan

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 113
  Back in April, Duane on Abnormal Interests had been pondering on the origin of the wanderwort "wine". (See Abnormal Interests: Friday Culture Word: *wyn(?), wine.) The topic is a rich universe unto itself and its easy to lose train of thought with all the details. Although there are a myriad of reflexes for "wine" ...
  6 weeks ago

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