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- Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:54 pm
- Forum: Anthropology and Primitive Societies
- Topic: The Hobbit on the see-saw
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14326
New Species
My pint of Guinness says HF is a new species!
- Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:32 am
- Forum: Anthropology and Primitive Societies
- Topic: The Hobbit on the see-saw
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14326
More than one hobbitses
RS said: Are there HF remains of more than one individual that can be compared? Do we yet know if it was a whole population all sharing the same traits, like small heads, long feet, and odd big toes, or could this individual HF have been an abberation amongst his own populace? I am pretty sure that ...
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:57 am
- Forum: Anthropology and Primitive Societies
- Topic: Peopling of Americas
- Replies: 89
- Views: 69586
- Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:14 am
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Extispicy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 30309
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:42 am
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Extispicy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 30309
Extispicy
Hey all, have you ever known a word exists but you don't remember what it was or have any clue how to find out? I have, and for some time I have been fretting over the word used to describe the practice of divination from animal (or sometimes human) entrails. Well, I just found the word and so now I...
- Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:37 pm
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Hawks 2008 Predictions
- Replies: 17
- Views: 36509
Habilis
Hi Beagle, I think Hawks might be right about habilis. The family tree is pretty bushy and tangled (not to mention thorny from the many missing pieces we don't even know about) at that point in time. I guess at some point a line has to be drawn between Homo and Australopithecus, even though if you t...
- Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:18 am
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Hawks 2008 Predictions
- Replies: 17
- Views: 36509
Hawks 2008 Prediction #3
3. Homo habilis: an endangered species?
Yes! I am telling you, orang pendek!
Still stirring the pot folks (see cryptozoology thread)....
Yes! I am telling you, orang pendek!
Still stirring the pot folks (see cryptozoology thread)....
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:18 am
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Sad News, Guys.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 38162
- Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:10 pm
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Possible 'Tunguska' on Mars in January
- Replies: 34
- Views: 62354
Mr. Asteroid, Please Miss the Mars Rovers
I hope if it does hits, it does not wipe out either the Spirit or Opportunity rovers still in action on Mars. Those geeks who designed and built those two little gems did a spectacular job. They initially were only going to last 30 days, but are still going years later. That whole mission has been a...
- Sat Nov 24, 2007 12:37 pm
- Forum: The 'Everything Else' Forum.....
- Topic: Global warming.
- Replies: 828
- Views: 174819
Human Impact and Extinctions
We are now living through one of the great epochs in the history of life on earth. Not since the advent of cyanobacteria 3.8 billion years ago changed the primordial atmosphere to its current composition has a life form existed that has succeeded in significantly altering the earth's atmospheric che...
- Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:09 pm
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Peace!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24451
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:55 pm
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Wharram Percy's mysterious round skulls
- Replies: 39
- Views: 30851
Molten Steel
As someone who has done my share of blacksmithing I can attest that steel does not have to be close to its melting point (steel needs to be over 1500 degrees F. to melt) to be soft enough to weaken and deform. I can conceive of a situation where structural steel elements heated by burning jet fuel, ...
- Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:15 pm
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Wharram Percy's mysterious round skulls
- Replies: 39
- Views: 30851
- Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:32 pm
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Homo Erectus in North America.
- Replies: 135
- Views: 86050
Crude HSS Tools and Dating
Digit, I live in Virginia outside of Washington DC and have for years combed the stream beds for early American tools and can report that tools, choppers, scrapers, and corestones such as the ones Charlie has until recently been sharing are quite common here. I am talking tools that are crude enough...
- Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:44 pm
- Forum: Archived Discussion Forum
- Topic: Homo Erectus in North America.
- Replies: 135
- Views: 86050
Acheulean technology vs HSS toolkits
Digit, that is indeed a fine hand axe, but it looks to me to be from the later Acheulean era...most likely the product of the later Homo heidelbergensis, not the earlier HE. As fine as it is however, it still is a rather crude tool. For over a million years the handaxe was the swiss army knife of Ho...