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Speaking of, does anyone have an image of a Fourche Maline culture point? I have the base of a broken head that I found tilling just south of the Arkansas River ages ago and I'm fairly certain it's caddoan but would like an earlier comparison. What's left looks much like this one: http://artxco.com/...

Quite nice! Thanks for the image and the scavenger hunt for small details. It's like Where's Waldo with Minoans.

Steve Holen, PhD. gave a talk here in Denver concluding an AIA lecture series recently that covered a couple of his papers showing evidence for an asiatic migration to the new world between 20 and 30k ybp. The evidence presented mainly consisted of spirally fractured mammoth bones suggesting human i...

Maybe it's archaeological proof that the Egyptians invented "Spinners". Makes sense as they're pretty good candidates for having invented "bling", too. Yep, OG just got pushed back to BC.

They spinnin, Pharaoh! They spinnin!

All the parts are actually in the flashlight I carry in my truck. It's got a hand crank, small dc motor and charging circuit for a rechargeable battery pack. One broke so it became a part source for a couple projects.

It'll only be a matter of minutes before I'm hand soldering a generator out of a mountain bike and a flashlight. :D Wanna post some schematics for that? :P It's Friday and I have nothin else to do, so why not? It's just a basic trickle charging circuit requiring some rigged interface with the bike ...

I second your whiskey tango foxtrot. Even the real deal under glass looks too well wrought to be of the time period it was found associated with. That's a great weld on the central tube. Despite the workmanship, the engineering doesn't look up to the task of heavy carting or charioteering. So if it'...

http://www.swanet.org/2010_pecos_conference/index.html

Looks like the annual Pecos Conference is August 12 - 15 in Silverton, CO this year. I've never been and likely won't make this one (baby due Aug. 30) but do any of you guys usually go?

The rock art has a greater resemblance to the Phaistos disc than the Magliano inscription , having the same type of "sections" and widths within the spiral . it is also ,if both are genuine , more likely to be be of a similar date .Although if both are fakes then they are also likely to b...

Without demonstration here, and without discussion of the definition of PIE, I will simply state that the disk belongs to the class of PIE spiral foundation inscriptions, in which certain sacrifices are pledged to certain gods at certain times. The Etruscan Magliano inscription parallels it. Simila...

Minimalist wrote:Try Arizona!

I spent a day in Kingman once, out on the edge of the desert. My fur fell out and I suddenly started walking more erectly. The desire to master fire and use more complex tools quickly followed.

They even noted it at the end. The same climate that was so hot was thinning the trees. Once you can't swing from tree to tree anymore than you have little choice but to get down on the ground. It's dangerous on the ground. There are big cats with sharp teeth. Standing up to look around would have ...

The bit about walking upright because of the heat feels like a bit of an evolutionary stretch. Definitely a stretch. Fur, for sure. But the entire skeletal structure and organ re-org required to walk upright? I'd doubt it to be anything more than a minor contributory factor. Maybe standing upright ...

Minimalist wrote:This guy thinks its a hoax.

http://archaeology.about.com/b/2008/06/ ... a-hoax.htm

I guess we'll never know until some TL has been performed.

After a lengthy discussion with a good friend of mine who holds a master's in the classics yesterday, I'm once again curious about the Phaistos Disc and particularly what the various opinions on it are around here. I only saw a couple of posts referencing it and thought it deserved its own thread. T...