There was also cannabis found in at least one of the Pazyryk "frozen tombs" in Siberia. These tombs are now dated late 4th - early 3rd cent BCE. It was...
Dear Trudy, Do you know to what extent the cannabis in Siberia was tested? Part of the suggestion in the new study, quite overblown in the news article, is...
I am a little concerned that this discussion is missing the point. There is ample evidence, as early the Rig Veda, that psycho-active drugs of one sort or...
Dear John, The point of Ethan Russo's study was to test an available source of archaeological cannabis, which he claims in his study was subjected to tests...
Dear Trudy and List, For the sake of this conversation, could you provide the reference to the study that you mention below? The dates you cite below appear to...
[Mod. note. Long URL (which would break in transit) changed for a tinyurl. Please make these conversions if possible before posting. Cheers, Steve.] Dear list ...
New Bryn Mawr Review of interest to comparativists. Steve **** Pierre Briant, Francis Joanne\s (ed.), La transition entre l'empire ache/me/nide et les royaumes...
Rodo's last message resent to fix a formatting error that occurred in Yahoo (only shows up in some email programs, demolishing the links). SF ******** Dear...
Dear List, Cutbacks to the funding of education is a problem faced by many universities and school boards the world over. One high school administrator in...
Dear List, A report out in Science Daily today about a new cognitive study that produced the illusion of body-swapping in subjects. ... Link to article (in...
Some scientists are really going starkers--as if anyone didn't already know this via experience! Now we have their boring little experiments. How do they think...
Dear Joanna, I'm sorry but your comments seem rather trite. I see absolutely no reason why scientists shouldn't be investigating the connection between...
Article of interest on excavations at Parsa, reportedly shedding light on the life of common people living near Persepolis (according to the article,...
This study by Russo does seem to offer the oldest documentation of cannabis as a "pharmacologically active agent". In particular the evidence suggesting...
If one is interested in the meditative transformations of the Buddhists, they can be read about in detail in Dina Bangdel's and my Circle of Bliss: Buddhist...
Dear List, About a year ago, the list discussed the effects of low pitched voices as beneficial for reproduction in hunter-gather communities. See the initial...
Reading in the online preview, I find his ethnographic reports fascinating. Joanna K. ================================= Haunted by the Archaic Shaman:...
Many thanks, Joanna! I might add that Gregory Maskarinec has published, this year, another weighty tome of Nepalese Shaman materials (W. Nepali text in Nagari,...
Romila Thapar, an early member of our List, has been named co-winner of the $1 million dollar Kluge Prize for Study of Humanity for 2008, administered by the...
[Mod. note. I suspect our Hindutva 'friends' have other views, Trudy. :^) - Steve.] Well deserved indeed!!! Trudy Kawami ... Steve Farmer wrote: Romila Thapar,...
My warm congratulations to Romila! The Kluge Prize is a well deserved international recognition of her life work which bridges perceived boundaries in ancient...
Trouble in Paradise? What's going on at Penn? Passed on from the Agade List. Steve ******* http://tinyurl.com/5m3ou3 The Daily Pennsylvanian Issue date:...
Dear Dean et al, As promised, I am preparing a PDF for Steve to post based on my current research on the NP. But right now it is both the end of the quarter an...
From what I have heard, this student news paper (the Daily Pennsylvanian) has misrepresented the situation considerably. There is some restructuring going on,...
In the past on the List from time to time we've discussed various aspects of human "flocking" behavior, which can be related abstractly to mathematical phase...
A neat new Bryn Mawr review article on a study of "soundscapes" in the ancient world. The study unfortunately appears to be limited mainly to Western examples....
Dear List, Report in Science from a few days ago of possible interest. It reports on a new study about the cognative development of modern humans and the rise...
Papers with major implications for studing the interaction of brains and cultures (also genes, brains, cultures) are appearing at an astonishing rate. Here is...
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