Dear Dan, We are turning the tablets 90 degrees counterclockwise to to conform with practice in Assyriological publications. There has been a lengthy...
Thanks for the explanation, Jacob. Are there any convincing theories about why the scribes later altered the script/signs 90 degrees? best wishes, Dan...
Dear Steve, if you don't know it anyway, information on rock carved tamgas in the Chilas region (upper Indus) is found in: Ditte Bandini-König.1999. Die...
Since we still are on weekend break: A peek forward to our discussions on prehistory, and cultural politics... ============== From the Shanghai daily: ...
[mod.'s note: Anne Daladier talked at 2 of our Round Tables, but on Khasi & War topics. -- I had promised to Francesco to ask her. However, she told me that...
... Jacob -- I've been working with PhotoShop on that proto-Elamite inscription all morning to improve resolution (now finished; hit "Refresh" if you go to the...
First about direction of writing in Mesopotamia. I can't remember if there is any satisfying explanation to the change in direction of writing. A gradual...
I believe this discussion of ³boat-shaped coffins² began with the Tarim basin mummies note, however, that the coffins there are not much like the later...
Thanks for the data on the rake sign, Jacob. 1. A List member has emailed me a PDF of the article on Mongolian tamgas, which contains great data on sign...
... their dead > aristocrats in ships. Several such finds have been made in Scandinavia, not > to mention the famous Arabic description of a Viking burial....
"...we have to be wary of verbal descriptions and analogies in discussing significant archaeological finds." I wholly agree for the stated reasons. IMO it's...
... translation) maintains, without giving any data, that some pre- Viking collective burials of Scandinavia are shaped like a ship viewed from above. This is...
Dear List, The Indo-Eurasian_research List has gone from 0 to 315 members in less than four weeks -- with representatives from all 5 continents and over 20...
Dear List, Here is a quick summary of the first few weeks of posts. Since we have well over 400 posts to cover, this week's summary will necessarily be ...
Congratulations Moderators! You are obviously doing the right things to keep the List active and focussed. Thanks for making such a useful forum available to...
Has anybody (besides George Hart) looked at the shamanistic practices mentioned in the Classical Tamil texts? They were an important part of the religious...
[Moderator's note: We all have been guilty of it, but please try to avoid top-posting, as has been requested earlier. This post is a response to a Bob Simpkins...
Archaeological 'Black Hole', c. 1700 - 500 BCE; and the Politicization of Archaeology Dear List: Today we'd like to open two closely related threads that we...
Terribly sorry to waste bandwidth in a correction, but a '0' dropped out of a very key date! Lamberg-Karlovsky was of course speaking of after c. 2000, not c....
Steve wrote: (See map at http://www.geocities.com/esagil1/arkiran.htm ) Massive urban settlements like Shahdad and Shahri-Sokhta in E. Iran were abandoned...
... <saf@s...> wrote: Dear Steve (and List), To begin with, and to clear the field of any possible doubts, what is the scientific plausibility of the recently...
Dear List, While we're waiting to see if what others have to say about what we have referred to as the ancient world's archaeological 'black hole' (c. 1700 -...
... I guess it depends on what's meant by a catastrophe, Francesco. If the reference is to Velikovsky-style cosmic collisions, I think it's safe to assign...
[Mod. note. Kalyanaraman is too eccentric to be personally influential -- that's why I referred to this as "comic relief (?)" -- but the rightwing Lists he...
[Mod. note. A note from Dagmar on a recent collection of studies relevant to the thread on nationalism and ancient research] Greetings, the most recent issue...
For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the nature of the archaeological evidence being referred to as the 'black hole' here, I'd like to clarify the evidence...
[Mod. note. Thanks for the links, Shenoy. A scan of the abstracts in the first volume suggests that it also contains useful papers, including one by David...
