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You have a broken link on the Burial box story to the SF Chronicle.

One quibbly point: Pushing the use of copper "back" to 1,000 BC is kind of a misnomer. They weren't pushing the use of copper back but rather the date of the site. From your second post I guess you don't know of a biblical reference to copper, Edom and Solomon. Come to think of it, if such...

Min and Cog - just to make sure I’ve got this right: 1. Levy et al have pushed the date of the smelting site back to an earlier time. I assume you do not dispute this (or do you?). 2. The date of the site is irrelevant to anything in the Bible. Do you know if the Bible mentions copper, Edom and Solo...

It is a stupid question. A knee-jerk response to the idea, which I cannot digest, that ancient stories (dignified by the label 'myths') are something more than stories. Best forget it.

I've just caught up with this. I understand that objections (eg Finkelstein et al) to the Biblical account are on the grounds that there is no actual evidence for the level of cultural development required to support Solomon's empire. From the ScienceNews article: “We have conclusively shown that in...

Information please. If the ancients believed there to be a mathematical or patterned basis to the world then how did this belief manifest itself in anything useful? Was it purely a religious/spiritual thing? Knowledge for its own sake? Intellectual mind games? Is this a a stupid question? Please ign...

Unholy Business by Nina Burleigh I finally got hold of this book. Here are my thoughts. I’m not sure exactly what I expected from this book. Red-hot investigative journalism? A startling exposé of the illegal Middle Eastern trade in archaeological artefacts? An enthralling detective story? The full...

Since Wikipedia is a cornerstone of information in these forums I thought this article might be worth a look. Actually it’s a bit dry and only nearly interesting. http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=21558&channel=web&section= The author seems to approve of W whos...

Look, I've got to get the last word in here.

The only thing of value in my desk drawer is a bottle of Scotch in a brown paper bag and a half eaten jaffa cake.

Only as an example relevant to the one you mentioned.

This poor woman. She doesn't deserve all this stick. I'm going to vote for her....
Oh, bugger....

John: Defining terms is the bane of social science. Get them right and you're half-way there. Get them wrong and you're nowhere. I seem to recall that Gottschall may have adopted a somewhat casual approach to this but I could be doing him a disservice. I do remember however that in one of his quoted...

Grump, the only point I thought you made was that you had a tendency to believe the last book you read.

If that is the case, one has to be careful what one reads.

You're getting warmer...

Why are you so obsessed with Jacobovici? He has nothing to do with it.