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This story is full of speculation. I doubt she had anything relevant to say.

Ah, the gold fever. I notice that there are lots of news about the finding of gold in this section. The discover of gold in itself is not relevant for the archaeologists; what for them matters is the historical information that can be obtained from it.

Sorry, but the information is not correct. Medicine, in terms of technique, exists everywhere; even animals practice it by licking a wound. What the Greeks did was to transform medicine into a science, that is, an abstract discourse with universal and necessary laws.

I think it is more correct to say that Alexander was smart enough to use local natural resources to his advantage.

It seems that some persons are very fond of big explosions to explain everything. What caused those climatic changes was, instead, the end of the Ice Age.

Human sacrifices are the most desperate of them all and are only done in exceptional circumstances. Your suggestion of a severe drought is possible, though a desperate military or an epidemic situation can also be envisaged.

What I find interesting here is that the Press used an analogy with Mickey Mouse in order to make the news more captivating to a general audience.

Weak theory. The bone is insufficient evidence. Just because it is common among the Incas, doesn't mean that it cannot also appear among others. Besides, how could the Vikings found the Incas, if the later lived in the other coast of the American continent? The Viking voyages were remarkable; there is no need to invent history in order to make them even more remarkable.

If that's your only objection then don't worry since, in what concerns me, it's fine that such machinery is only operated by experts. My main intention is, instead, to distribute for as many persons as possible the results of such survey in order to allow that everyone can do virtual diggings. Notice that something similar happened in the 15th/16th centuries with the invention of the press and a wider literacy, something that allowed more people to read old documents and participate in historical research. Actually, this forum, where most of its members are amateurs, is an example of that, since most of the sources used here are written ones. What I'd like to happen in the future is something similar with archaeology.

Perhaps I should tell you at this point that you are talking to an archaeologist, and one who has had firsthand experience with looting on numerous occasions. Let's just let this rest, shall we? Are you pulling rank on me, Maladict? Have you ever considered that I may be an archaeologist too?

Thanks for the info, but I didn't explain myself better before. What I'd like to know is if you don't mind comparing with a couple of good examples the book of Liddel Hart and another one and show us the differences.

Reliable possibly for the layman with only the most basic knowledge of the history in question. Any modern work(unfortunately Scullards is no longer in print, a far superior work) is likely to be considerably better then this brief work. I'm not sure what you mean with better. Do you care to give a couple of exampls?

If the Bosnians look more carefully, they'll find out that most of the mountains in Bosnia are, after all, pyramids.

The interpretation of the geneticist is clearly political , assuming that biggest division among humans today is physical and if we just start mixing with each other, then one new "race" would emerge and all our problems would disapear. That's gross, ridiculous and naive, since divisions among humans are caused by cultural factors.

Maladict Let me explain you some things about archaeology: Archaeologists study the past through its material dimension. That means that today you need to dig the objects but if in the future there is technology that allows archaeologists to know what lies beneath the ground, physical excavations become redundant. This also means that it

I think that both theories - humans mixing with each other or killing each other - are not correct. In the first case, there is no evidence that any sexual contact between humans of different species would allow that children could be born and, if so, if they wouldn't also be sterile like mules. The author assumes that humans bred because Yet, this doesn't mean that all these waves mixed because groups of the first two waves also stayed in Africa (the third wave is Homo Sapiens Sapiens), and since Homo Sapiens Sapiens developped in Africa it obviously incorporates elements of groups from which it descends. As for the war theory, notice that recently more and more diverse human groups have been found in the archaeological record. And the many differences among them were the result of living isolated, which means that with time they end up developing certain genetic traits. What caused the extinction of many of these groups was not war. And how could it be? The world is large and these human groups had a small number. It is calculated that 10.000 years ago there weren

The Greeks by the time of Homer were never beyond Sicily, so it's not a valid theory.

The image you provided doesn't show the opening, nonetheless, I did a bit of research and found other images here and here that show that the snail had a sizeable opening. So, I guess my initial idea was not correct.

It's possible that there were more migrations to America than previously thought, but it must be noticed that they all went through the Bering strait and not by boat across the Pacific, since there are no archaeological remains of human occupation in those islands before the Polynesians.

Such genetic similarities are most likely the result of migrations that took place after the last glaciation from Iberia to the northern Europe along the Atlantic coast. In my perspective, the term "Celt" is more cultural than genetic.

I was thinking more along the lines of treasure hunting and illegal digging. Most archaeological remains should be kept unknown and unseen as long as possible. I don't think that's a problem. The purpose of excavations is to register that data. Once the same thing is possible to do with ground radars and virtual digs it's irrelevant if the artifact is later looted or not. Anyway, if the possibility of looting bothers you that can easily be erradicated simply through an international agreement that removes market value for artifacts.

The medieval cathedral of Braga, in Portugal, which is dedicated to the Virgin, was built on top a temple of Isis.

The rebuilt of the fleet was mostly a show-off, since most of the wood was green. But the worst was the loss of tens of thousands of experient sailers and archers. You can't substitute that in a year. The truth is that after Malta and Lepanto any possibility of the Ottomans dominating the entire Mediterranean collapsed and they had to settle for its eastern part.

Yes, Adams is an excellent source. There is a not bad Wikipedia article on bad words Latin profanity which I noticed by chance the other day. Hey, this is amazing. Most of the words mentioned in the Wiki article are still routinelly used in Portuguese and one of them - merda ($hit) - is exactly the same. Maybe because it is the most routinely used explitive, thus the reason it didn't suffer any change after thousands of years.