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So- 6000 years ago, some girls got on the first domestic horses, could ride faster than a warrior could run, and became the Amazons. By 4000 BP some of them made it all the way to China. Taking both Soma and dope with them. Meeting the purveyors of ephedra and opium. Musta been a high time. That mu...

Well, thanx John. Not often I see such an informative post. Gimbutas shows us some curious small square, 4 footed, goat headed bowls from the Lower Danube. 7000 BP. Cucuteni, Petresti, Vinca. But then the Russians, excavating an Amazon grave in the permafrost, finds the same kind of bowl. Only this ...

Castledon, "Atlantis Destroyed" makes a credible case that the eruption and caldera collapse on Thera not only destroyed the city of At Lunus in the center of the Island, but as noted here, the tsunumi devastated both the navy and the commercial fleet. But there's another problem I note in...

i dont really expect urbanites, so insulated from the effects of climate, to really get it. The Greenland Ice core shows global warming has been going on for 10,000 years. Granted that hominid activity may be contributing, but its not like hominid efforts now are going to stop it. So- both those who...

Wasson, "Persephone's Quest" makes a convincing case that Soma's active ingredient as Amanita Muscaria. But part of the confusion, which he mentions, is that when the original ingredients are unavailable, people will try to make do. When they do, they sometimes use something that looks sim...

The last non-Christian emperor, "Julian the Apostate" had this to say about his governorship of Gaul:"Was it possible for the disciple of Plato and Aristotle to act otherwise than I have done? Could I abandon the unhappy subjects intrusted to my care? Was I not called upon to defend t...

i dont claim HNS did Altimira, just their hybrid descendants. When two different cultures meet, the effects of the artistic sensibility changes take a while, and build over time. Same deal with the Aryans. Caucasoid, Alpine, & Semetic skulls were found at Chatal Hoyuk. The place drew people who ...

While researching neaderthal art, which there seems so far, to be precious little, I came this site which is actually a good collection of links to pictures, articles, etc of general interest relevent to this thread. http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~cowen/HistoryofLife/Neanderthals.html Wow! Thanx. ...

"The Cave Painters" by Curtis does not have near as many photos of the artwork as I'd like, but the depiction of extinct species like rhinos & horses would seem to preclude the Holocene or any later date despite any quibbles we might have over the C-14. And its not that the rest of the...

Ya Beagle; I've had a lotta fun with the Aryan invasion thing. Based on the extensive ruins & what Mallory has to say, the "Aryans" look like a merchant class, kinda like the Jews, who came into town with their own culture and literature in a time when everyone else was illiterate. The...

Lessee if I can tie a few threads together here. The holes in the flute are not round, but I can see how, over time, round holes would be worn oval by the fingertips during performances. Why bother making the holes oval? Sykes refers to 7 mtDNA lines found all over Europe. But the Fins have 2 more, ...

DB, I will work on this one but please clarify: which of the seven lines was descended from HNS? Or is that a general statement without any particular preference? (ie check box "f" - any of the above). You realize that in order for HNS mtDNA to pass forward the hybrid must have been a Cro...

Thanx Beagle. That's great. Gotta love it when someone posts some real data. since http://www.greenwych.ca/fl-compl.htm seems to be interested in all kinds of early music, I thot I'd ask them about the Goddess temple on Malta. All around the periphery of the temple, set into the walls, are little re...

http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1101/hughes2.html shows a stamp seal from 2300 BC. then too we have- http://www.prehistory.it/mappadeisegni1i.htm; i note the figure on the lower right, "OE 19" which has a similar backwards "S" with a triton like figure. Only in this case, its not 43...

seems like it would have exported some of the technology that suddenly shows up in the Indus & Fertile Crescent. http://discovermagazine.com/2006/nov/ancient-towns-excavated-turkmenistan shows a city laid out on a grid pattern with the same kind of hydraulic engineering seen further south. Centr...