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Skriven 2009-05-24 10:55:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
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 -=> Quoting Carol Shenkenberger to Glen Jamieson <=-

    
 >  CS> Well I caught up just before starting the new job then fell back.
 > That's understandable.  Is the new job like what you expected?

 CS> Better!  It's actually *fun* to go to work with this one!

You can't get much better than that!
 
 > I do know that in Europe, at least,
 > there was quite an overlap of the Neanderthals with the Homo Sapiens.

 CS> Yes, 50,000-30,000 years ago.
 
 >  CS> radical site claims USA inhabitance when they still seem to have
 >  CS> existed but they do it by carbon dating some clovis era tools to some
 >  CS> charchol.  It is in a washed out river bed.  There's no real telling
 if
 >  CS> the tools were of the same era of if someone just found a bed of old
 >  CS> 'coal' and used it later.

 CS> To clarify, there is old coal from a forrest fire laying amid some
 CS> clovis era stone tools in a riverwash.  No proof thst the coal didnt
 CS> get there on it's own or if it was carried there by man, that it wasnt
 CS> old stuff dug up just like we do out of coal beds.
 
There are more and more ways of dating being developed.  For the last
3000 years or so, it is fairly simple, particularly for town dwellers,
as such things as tree rings can be used, and DNA survives in many
samples of bone, teeth, etc. Once the samples go back 50,000 years or
more, and humans were nomadic, it becomes more difficult.  There is
evidence of aboriginal occupation of Australia up to 80,000 years ago,
as indicated by geological deposits and middens of heaped-up oyster
shells where a steady food supply allowed long term habitation in an
area.  Whether those ancients were related to latter day aborigines is
not known, but there is some evidence to indicate that they were
different.
 
 >  >  CS> mexico through south america.  Ours have prehensile tails (old
 CS> world ones dont).
 >  > Something I didn't know!  Whenever I see a monkey I will have to see
 >  > how he uses his tail, so I know where he comes from.  :)

 CS> All can use them (if they have one as a few classes as 'monkey' do
 CS> not) but most seem to use them as stabilizers or gliding assistance. 
 CS> New world ones use them as much as an elephant uses it's trunk.

Thanks to you, I looked carefully at the next monkey I saw in TV.  It
used its tail to grip supports, like an extra hand.
 
 > The Polynesians were wonderful seamen, so it is quite possible for
 > them to have settled in South America long before they came to New
 > Zealand and killed off the people who were there first.  There are

 CS> Might be, but the water path (currents) dont really lead that way.  It
 CS> is possible there was some mixing though with existing folks.  Auk Auk
 CS> seems to lead to that idea.

The Polynesian outrigger sailing craft could tack upwind, which was
more than the clumsy European ships could do, so they could literally
run rings around the Europeans.  Their navigation skills enabled them
to travel long distances, using stars and wave patterns as their
guides.  They knew where they were, and could return to the same
places again.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Breadfruit with Coconut Cream
 Categories: Desserts, Sides, Samoan, Pacific, Charmaine
      Yield: 8 servings
 
      1    Half-ripe breadfruit
           ;about 1.5 kg
    500 ml Fresh coconut cream
           OR
    400 ml Can coconut cream
      1 ts Sea salt; to taste
 
  This Samoan preparation may be served as a vegetable or as dessert.
  
  Bake the breadfruit in a moderate oven for 1 hour or until it is
  easily pierced with a fork.
  
  Remove from oven and cut it in half. Discard core and skin, and put
  the pulp into a large bowl in which it can be mashed with a potato
  masher. It is easier if this is done while the breadfruit is hot. Add
  the salt and coconut cream and with a spoon divide the breadfruit
  into walnut-sized pieces. Serve hot.
  
  Note: If the breadfruit is perfectly ripe, soft and sweet, it need
  not be baked. Instead, pull out the stem, cut the fruit in halves
  lengthways and scoop out pulp with a spoon. Measure the pulp and mix
  in half the volume of coconut cream, and one sixth the volume of
  sugar. Add salt to bring out the flavour.
  
  From: CHARMAINE SOLOMON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN FOOD By: CHARMAINE
  SOLOMON, with NINA SOLOMON IBSN 0 85561 688 1 Scanned/Edited by:
  KEVIN JCJD SYMONS, MARCH 2005
 
MMMMM
 

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