Corrected and resent: one line on Bagnall, etc., was garbled in the Mod. window: On Oct 1, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Steve Farmer wrote: New study of ostraca (texts...
Of interest to several specialists on the List on ancient musicology. (Conference in the Netherlands scheduled for 10-12 December.) Nice illustration also at...
From LA Times, summarizing material released today in Science -- new Ethiopian finds, with the headline: Fossils radically alter ideas about the look of man's...
[Mod. note. Can I suggest that we're all better as usual reading the original papers (11 in this case) than depending on the predictable pop science hype? Here...
Can I suggest that before anyone gets too excited about the newest glut of lightly rewritten press releases about Ardipithecus coming out of Science magazine...
Before the geneticists take up an ambitious project, they should do some preliminary standardizing work by taking well-defines endogamous groups and...
[Mod. note. Zoom in on satellite view, - SF.] Dear List, Could anyone, please, enlighten me what are the structures (a group of round objects) that can be seen...
Just found this photo: http://sss.vn.ua/india/uttarakhand/badrinath/badrinath302.htm The inscription reads: sincAI vibhAg uttarAncal (Irrigation Department, ...
Are you sure that they are not just triangular stepped terraces for agriculture? If they were tumuli you would not be able to see the stone rim that forms the...
Dear Trudy, Look closer at the Google map, these objects seem to be circular and convex. No, I do not say they are tumuli, but they kind of look like ones....
Not often that Trudy is wrong on this site, but they are certainly mounds that conceal what's behind them (e.g. half a cow behind No. 31). You can get some...
Bryn Mawr Classical Review just out, of possible interest (no time yet to read thoroughly). Steve ******** Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.10.11 Pita Kelekna,...
I now see the cow behind #31, but still have a hard time seeing them as tumuli. If the land slopes steeply, as it seems to, the so-called terraces would be...
... Thank you Dan, but it looks like the link is inoperative. I got to Uttarkhand Irrigation contact button by a roundabout way, but was unable to send my...
Artur, Your mounds look like WWII munitions bunkers and, as close as Badrinath is to a disputed border, it would make perfect sense.. You can see a bit better...
John, At the first moment I thought they could be local sadhus' funeral mounds, but no, they are definitely numbered, and the signboard of the Uttaranchal...
How intriguing ! I wonder if they are some kind of anti-landslide defence ~ they are built into a fairly steep slope ruuning straight down to the town and...
Dear List, Do we understand why did sculptors show hair of Buddha in blue color? Does it represent a religious belief and do we have a parallel in other parts...
One reason may be that the blue used is usually ultramarine, powdered lapis lazuli, which is very costly & does not fade. It may - on one level - be the same...
Per asks about the rendering of the hair of the Buddha as blue: It's probably based on an overly literal rendering of nīla, which can mean blue, but often has...
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Re. global parallels: In the Egyptian legend of the Destruction of Mankind Râ', the ailing sun god, is said to have hair "like lapis-lazuli" (m.hsbd). Text in...
How about the Buddha having blue eyes (Ramdeva also has blue eyes)? Would that be another instance of the indeterminate use of nila? Joanna Kirkpatrick ...
[Set encoding to UTF-8 if reading in a browser.] Probably not. A different form of the word is used for the eyes: abhinīlanetto. That is interpreted by the...
Flax-flower? Following up, why would the Buddha have blue eyes in a region where the phenotype comes up with brown eyes, as a rule? In the iconographic ...
Relevant to several threads on this site, I call attention to an abstract at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120705484/abstract Exploring Hindu...
Dear List, Sorry, the the URL of the second YouTube link I provided in my latest post is a repetition of the first one. Here are the two correct URLs: ...
... Francesco, Make sure to check out the depiction of nava rasas in other Indian dance forms like Bharatanaatyam, Kuchipudi, Kathak, Manipuri and Odissi etc....
