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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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Bev
18 years ago
18 years ago
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.

Klato
18 years ago
18 years ago
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.

psimagus
18 years ago
18 years ago
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

Bev
18 years ago
18 years ago
Oh, you'll get used to us eventually. We kind of grow on you. Like fungus.
psimagus
18 years ago
18 years ago
I might crack a gag about Hanson Robotics, but I guess I'm still a little too sober

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18 years ago
18 years ago
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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