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Digit · Post by **Digit** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:27 pm

Why so Beag?

Post by **Minimalist** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:05 pm

14,000 ya the hair would have been lighter IMO.

And up in a bun.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:37 pm

Why so Beag?

As I said, it's just my opinion. Light hair color is a feature normally only seen in Eurasia. History is full of descriptions of people who were light haired but are now usually portrayed as dark haired. Alexander the Great being one. You would no longer expect a Greek to have anything but dark hair.

Southern and Eastern Europe have had a lot of contact with dark haired people over many years and subsequently have predominately dark hair, as it is genetically dominant.

Sicily was conquered by the Moors in the 9th century. They also conquered southern Spain and occupied it for about 300 yrs.

Eastern Europe has been overrun many times. In short, it's my belief that Europe was home to light haired people at that time, despite what some recent folks have said. Just my opinion.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:00 am

Absolutely nothing to do with Archaeology but I couldn't let it pass.
From a local newspaper.
A 19 yr old female student stopped at a local gated level crossing of the type where you open and close the gates yourself. She got out of her car, opend the gate, drove onto the tracks, got out of her car, closed the gate, opened the second gate and when she turned around her car was half a mile down the line!
What can you say?

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:07 am

Maybe some HN survived?

Post by **Minimalist** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:17 am

where you open and close the gates yourself.

They trust you people to do that?

It would never work on this side of the pond.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:28 am

It didn't work too well here either Min! What pissed me was her argument that the signals didn't tell her the train was that close. That type of crossing is very rare here now, the particular location is very rural, but if you park your pride and joy on a railway track what can you expect?
I'm waiting to see if she gets a bill for repairs to the loco, she's damned lucky the train stayed on the tracks!

Post by **Minimalist** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:30 am

How can you NOT hear a train coming? Aren't they required to blow the whistle as they approach a crossing?

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:35 am

Yep! Also the warning lights change from a steady light to a flashing light that speeds up as the loco gets nearer.
Like I said, what can you say?
With so little brain I'd like to know how she has made it to university. I hate to think what she might be studying.

marduk · Post by **marduk** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:57 am

was she blonde
was she studying to be a beautician
ahah

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:59 am

Believe me Steve if I find out I'll let you know! I'd love to see the insurance report.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:53 am

http://www.examiner.com/a-594268~Scienc ... exico.html

GALVESTON, Texas - Famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard is leading a team of scientists heading into the Gulf of Mexico for a weeklong examination of Texas' ancient shoreline to see if anybody may have lived there.

Ballard, whose discoveries include the wrecks of the Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck, is among dozens of geologists, biologists and marine archaeologists exploring the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, a protected area of underwater salt domes that are topped with reefs that host brightly colored sponges, plants and other marine life.

But 15,000 or more years ago, with much of North America locked in the last Ice Age, water levels of the Gulf of Mexico were 200 feet lower, meaning the area was the Texas shoreline some 100 miles south of where it is now.

An update on an older article, Ballards' team is getting ready to shove off.
A significant find will help disprove the Clovis First Theory.

From the News Section.

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:43 am

A significant find will help disprove the Clovis First Theory.

Which is already on life support.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:45 am

Should I send flowers Min?

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:23 pm

A new horned dinosaur:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/03 ... index.html

A leap of faith, by a religious zealot:

That makes the newly found creature an intermediate between older forms with large horns and later small-horned relatives, said State of Utah paleontologist Jim Kirkland, who with Douglas Wolfe identified Zuniceratops in New Mexico in 1998. He predicted then that something like Ryan's find would turn up.

"Lo and behold, evolutionary theory actually works," he said.