A complication and also an addition to our visual documentation: SEN, Tansen 1999 Astronomical Tomb Paintings from Xuanhua: Maṇḍalas? in: Ars Orientalis,...
[utf-8 if in browser] Steve writes: {Mod. note. My last note had nothing to do with cakras, Dan, since now we obviously have a badly broken thread. It had to...
[Mod. Note: here is the link for convenience <http://arthist.net/archive/3210> - bf] Dear List, this German exhibition and conference announcement comes from...
Call For Papers We are pleased to announce that the 1st International Conference on "Rediscovering the Silk Route" is scheduled to be held in Mansehra,...
Okay, it's a little early for the weekend, but this little gem from S. Kalyanaraman, which appeared in my mailbox this morning, and on the India Archaeology...
[Mod. note. Meanwhile, Dr K did manage to slip a post onto the Agade List this week advertising his newest cut-and-paste book (made up of crazy blog posts and...
I'm sure that this new paper, out of the Sante Fe Institute, will evoke some pithy comments from the historical and computational linguists on the list --...
Right, as you may recall I had written one of the (negative) reviews of Atkinson's paper, which evidently was not taken seriously enough by Science to prevent...
Dear members of the List, I have a question regarding the date of Bhishma's death in the Mahabharata. Is it true that the only statement, made by Bhishma...
Francesco, In the Bhi-s.ma Parva, when Bhi-s.ma has been mortally wounded, he says he will wait until the beginning of the uttara-yan.a to die (6.114.86-100)....
... Many thanks for the info, Luis; it is exactly like I had expected. Thus, it is only in Book 13, a very late addition in the MBh, that we find mention of...
This is a list for scholars in the field, which I am definitely not, but I would like to make two points. One is that, as a child, I learned that uttarayana...
Paper of significant interest to premodernists published today in PNAS. Massive changes in world climate and ecology have occurred repeatedly during the last...
The new paper aims to reconcile the issue of MTDNA diversity. The authors support the prevailing theory of horse domestication taking place in the Eurasian...
(I'm not using diacritics because in my previous email they didn't come through, despite having used unicode.) Francesco, ... From the winter to the summer...
Of considerable interest, published this week in PNAS. "Co-occurrence of linguistic and biological diversity in biodiversity hotspots and high biodiversity...
In my previous email I mentioned an illustration showing the changing speed of the sun's rising point as it moves from solstice to solstice. Steve has kindly...
[Mod. note. Can't disappoint you, Richard. :^) I've thought a lot about this all day, from time to time. Aren[t "linguistic diversity" and "cultural diversity"...
In a trivial sense that's obviously true: language and culture are both aspects of human biology and thus diversity in those is related to diversity of (human)...
The claim that culture is an aspect of biology is trivially true wouldn't be so obvious to the numerous humanistic intellectual descendants of Dilthey on the...
Dear list, An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education out a week or two ago related to the work of the psychologist Brian Nosek who is recently...
Dear Luis, You have convinced me, and this is indeed an important turning point in my quest! I had relied too much on Asko Parpola's interpretation of the...
Any critique or musings on University of Cambridge Archaeologist Marsha Levine's criticism of the paper's findings? ... Dr Vera Warmuth : " Based on...
[Mod. note. Well said, and let's move on to other issues. - SF.] There is an old Hindi saying. You can wake up a person who is asleep. You cannot wake up a...
Levine is quite right in noting that the spreading herds would encompass wild (non-domesticate) females repeatedly. That would be just basic animal husbandry...
Just officially published in PNAS: Michael E. Smith et al., "Archaeology as a social science" (see plain text of abstract at end). Link to PNAS abstract here: ...
Book overview passed on from the Agade List. There is an obvious reason why discussion of the "Indus script" is no longer included in volumes like this: no one...
Dear Steve, Thanks for posting this, very interesting. Since we are on this topic -- here is some info on the next meeting of the "Idea of writing" group in ...
New study just published today in PNAS on what have been claimed as the oldest known examples of cave art -- a claim often disputed since Chauvet cave was...
Perhaps of interest to the list members. Here comes a new publication on Indology: Art, Myths and Visual Culture of South Asia. Edited by Piotr Balcerowicz...
