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Skriven 2009-05-25 10:33:23 av Carol Shenkenberger (30977.cooks)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson (30948.cooks)
Ärende: WILD SHEEP  90524
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 >  CS> Better!  It's actually *fun* to go to work with this one!
 > 
 > You can't get much better than that!

Nope!  Now I just have to hope the contract comes through.  It should but
until it gets renewed, I'm understandably a bit nervous.


 >  > 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.

 > 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.

At 80,000 years, they would have been.  Well into Neaderthal era, but there
was a homo sapiens sort, just not the full homo sapiens sapiens yet (or so
they believe).  I'm thinking more like cro-magnon?  Have to look it up.


 >  >  >  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.

Did you have anyy way to tell if it was a new world or old world one?  I
gather it's a matter of 'difference' in use.  More than just stabilizing on a
tree limb.  They actually pick things up with their tails and such.  Saw a
documentary and one was using a stick with it's tail to drive termites out of
a limb and catching them with his hands to eat them.

There's a memory fragment that our 'new world' monkeys arent supposed to be
exported because they are a little more efficient and might decimate the
local old world ones?

 >  > 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.

I've read about it.  The main gap in the idea when it's debated, is the
polynesians brought certain root words and ways of society but there is no
sign of that here except on later populated islands.  It's possible some of
them came but were killed off by the Clovis man here?

There is evidence of possible African migration and definately strong leads
to European and Inuit as well as the Bering straits path which would
sporadically form a walkable land mass between us and eastern Asia.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Crusty French Bread
 Categories: Breadmaker
      Yield: 1 Loaf
 
    1/2 tb Yeast
      2 c  Flour, bread
      2 c  Flour
      1 ts Sugar
    1/2 tb Salt
  1 1/3 c  Water
 
  Bring all ingredients to room temperature and pour into bakery, in
  order. Set "baking control" at 11 o'clock. Select "French bread" and
  push Start.
  
  Note: In the full size recipe I used 2 Tablespoons Granulated Garlic
  to make a very good galic bread that when slathered with butter and
  placed into  oven to heat made an EXCELLENT addition to
  spaghetti.---Henry
  
  From: _Zojirushi Cookbook_ Posted on GEnie by H.STANDO [Gadgeteer]
  
  MM by Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, GT Cookbook
  echo moderator at net/node 004/005 Focaccia (Italian Flatbread)
 
MMMMM

                xxcarol
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