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I also found it interesting that when they did a genetic sampling there was a Italian woman and an Inuit man that shared a great number of common markers.
I needed that one. I did a google on the Amazons and received a ton of pictures of Amazon blondes (Hollywood type). I recall a study being done on searching for an Amazon descendant and I was searching for it. Oh, well, as my Pre-Alzheimer brain remembers, DNA tests were run against a 9 year old blonde girl who turned out to be a direct descendant of an Amazon warrior whose body had been found earlier. You're right. DNA can really pose some interesting questions about people and their life stories.
hat it was all made by ancient Man banging flints together I am amazed by the skill it takes to make a flake tool. I have tried and got nothing but broken rocks and some nasty cuts. I good flint tool is amazingly sharp, and stays sharp much longer than metal. (they do fracture and metal won't). You have to hand it to the ancestors for having skill and stamina.
I recall a study being done on searching for an Amazon descendant and I was searching for it.
I think you can find that in the book Warrior Women by the archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball. It was also featured in an episode of Secrets of the Dead (TV, but it's PBS). http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_amazon/index.html. You can see the Gabieseque blond Asian girl here http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_amazon/clues.html.
I think you can find that in the book Warrior Women by the archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball.
Indeed I did. And it was "Secrets of the Dead" where I saw this originally. I had an Alzheimer's moment - or the other way, I don't know. Is your brain for rent? I think I'm going to need one shortly.
The Sarmatian connection blew me away. I didn't know this.
BTW, the last link failed for some reason, but it did suggest looking up Jayne Mansfield. Oh, well.
I am amazed by the skill it takes to make a flake tool.
I agree (I certainly don't mean to imply it's a crude technology) - stone age man spend 2 and a half million years perfecting the working of flints until he could make the likes ofhttp://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/f/flint_knife_with_an_ivory_hand.aspx
I have tried and got nothing but broken rocks and some nasty cuts.
I was lucky enough to grow up in a very flinty area, but despite a lot of practice as a kid I never achieved anything better than poor quality hand axes that even homo erectus would have been unimpressed by.
I always dreamt of making a nice neolithic-style arrowhead (I've found a few,) but I never got the hang of working with flakes.
I have still got the knack of making fire with flints and a twist of raw wool though
I never got the hang of working with flakes.
Oh, you'll get used to us eventually. We kind of grow on you. Like fungus.
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I think you can find that in the book Warrior Women by the archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball. It was also featured in an episode of Secrets of the Dead (TV, but it's PBS). http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_amazon/index.html. You can see the Gabieseque blond Asian girl here http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_amazon/clues.html.
The Sarmatian connection blew me away. I didn't know this.
BTW, the last link failed for some reason, but it did suggest looking up Jayne Mansfield.
Oh, well. 
I agree (I certainly don't mean to imply it's a crude technology) - stone age man spend 2 and a half million years perfecting the working of flints until he could make the likes of
I was lucky enough to grow up in a very flinty area, but despite a lot of practice as a kid I never achieved anything better than poor quality hand axes that even homo erectus would have been unimpressed by.
I always dreamt of making a nice neolithic-style arrowhead (I've found a few,) but I never got the hang of working with flakes.
I have still got the knack of making fire with flints and a twist of raw wool though
Oh, you'll get used to us eventually. We kind of grow on you. Like fungus.
They say that every life leave all sorts of "ripples" behind when it ends. What sort of ripples do you see there Glindar?
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