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A state the size of Utah has a 5 person archeology department? And now all they have is 2 clerks? .... This may end up being a blessing in disguise. Time will tell. There is nothing disguised here, and you can't spin this 180 degrees with future maybes. The loss of such experienced personnel, with ...

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/52048298-90/state-utah-station-archaeology.html.csp By Brandon Loomis and Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune. Jun 21 2011 Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones was laid off from the Utah Department of Community and Culture on Tuesday. Officials say the measures wer...

I might employ logic to reason that if 12th century Catholics could do it so could 15th century native Americans. However, they didn't. There aren't any 15th century cathedrals – or similar buildings – in north-America. So that 'logic' doesn't wash IRL. The question is not if Catholics built buildi...

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The evidenciary context, the known material archaeology, seems lacking in the discussion. Scroll down in this article for a summation, albeit now out-of-date. Non-microblade migration/culture comes first across Siberia with first modern peopling. PALEOAMERICAN ORIGINS: A Review of Hypotheses and Evi...

Fluted Points from the Bering Land Bridge http://qmackie.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/fluted-points-from-the-bering-land-bridge/ March 6, 2010 Serpentine Hot Springs, has come to light on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula (the bit that sticks out closest to Asia – map) which has revealed numerous fluted points....

Meanwhile, Native Americans in 1500's USA did not have "writing" :lol: http://jqjacobs.net/rock_art/images/three_kings_t.jpg because we don't read their stuff :lol: but we KNOW shamans did ritual and pilgrimage but no one knew where they were on the earth :lol: Seriously, the serious anthr...

... a radical new ... hypothesis -- described as "speculative" but "plausible" by the researchers themselves -- appears in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, which features a special series of new studies tracing humanity's proliferation out of Africa and around th...

... red ochre or hematite is always the calling card left where a shamanic ritual took place .... Wow. And you know this how? Red ochre is a mineral paint, used for decoration and burial marking. Shaman is a mental category in "modern" or maybe "post-modern" minds. There are no ...

..... pneumatic jackhammers to 'chip'/chisel a stone boat/barge. And they weren't easy to come by, 1,6 mya. .... I like how threads stay on topic (NOT!). Archaeolithic sailors..hee...hee... At least the ways to bomb threads are sometimes entertaining. ..... Any boats or rafts then built of organic ...

I must agree in many ways. The big problem seems to be paradigmatic--assumptions based on out-dated European world-views about those 'pesky primitive pagans on the fringes of the civilized world' rather than considering their own culture on Contact a Dark Age being incapable of knowing what they enc...

What I want to know is any of this going to be protected from disturbance and development? What did this civilization know about Amazon plants, medicines, psychoactive drugs, what were their cultigens, flowers, bees, fish, frogs, or whatever else, parrots, monkeys? What imprint remains, not just on ...

http://jqjacobs.net/southwest/images/anasazi_heritage_center_ppt.jpg "2010.02.13 - SOUTHWEST Photo Gallery ... A dozen new PowerPoints ... links in the SOUTHWEST Anthropology and Archaeology hub..." -- http://jqjacobs.net/blog/index.html http://jqjacobs.net/southwest/index.html LINKS in t...

Good to see this repost. It is useful to stay on topic, or at least within this domain's topical relevance of whatever sub-theme evolves. To also diverge, I once lived at this latitude nearer the Andes and life is unimaginably easy where rains are adequate. Not one word either about the amount of da...

... all kinds of politics involved with these discoveries ... “deforestation.” Indeed, this is ground zero today of the deforestation/settlement advance, like Ohio was in the late 1700s, etc. etc. One placemark I found was the museum for slain conservationist, Chico Mendes. They really are WOW. But...