Posted on 10/05/2007 4:25:03 AM PDT by Renfield
OK, so my attempted pun fell flat.
I meant 'dating' as in 'romance, dinner and a movie, long walks in the moonlight' type dating.
Unless your 'rodents' refers to "Mickey Mouse" and the Magic Kingdom? ;-)
Cheers!
your pun didnt fail, but my counter pun was lost.
my dating techniques, while not always accurate, generally involve rodents and other small woodland creatures.
Being a feral feline, maybe I got distracted by the thought of all those tasty mice. (Look at the picture at the top of my FReeper home page).
I apologize.
Could you please explain?
no worries, just a couple of mice hunters i guess.
The article refers to bone from a robust individual, very active.
Given sexual dimorphism [the fact that hominid males are typically larger than hominid females] perhaps they made this conclusion from this bone being larger than would be expected for a female of this species. Also, wouldn’t the activity patterns developed in the bone be different for an adult hunting male in his prime compared with those of a female living a less, or differently active way of life?
Those are indeed the types of considerations that I would expect the experts to be using.
There are a variety of shape differences in the bones between male and female, but I don't think the tibia (the article said "shin bone") has many of those.
I would guess that size and muscle markings may have been more important. (But then I haven't studied fossils since grad school, so they may have something new.)
Thank you for that absolutely hysterical link. I am writing a book that takes place in 1902. The French family would have taken regular trips from Martinique to Paris in the previous years, so I think this will be an amusing couple of pages in my book. Cheers, and am I glad I was not wearing a corset.
Cheers!
People need to know that pyroclastic flow did not original with Rosie O'Donnell :-)
Cheers!
Yes the historical novel is about the eruption of Mt Pelee as well as the other 4 volcanos around the Caribbean Plate that were active that year, and the influence it had on deciding to put the Panama Canal in Panama and not in Nicaragua. I have been studying a lot about volcanoes, and plan to make the book as scientifically accurate as I can.
Cheers!
you are absolutely right about using minor items such as beertabs and the like for dating in situ items. in deetz’ “in small things forgotten” Deetz uses items that are obviously trash items such as clay pipes, tin cans, and nails to try to turn historical archaeologists from searching only for big finds and shows how these seemingly mundane items are probally more usefull in creating a description of a site than say a beautiful intact vase or its like.
boxgrove hits:
British Archaeology (Latest News)
British Archaeology | 5-13-2002
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Oldest human footprints found on volcano
New Scientist | March 12 2003 | Hazel Muir
Posted on 03/12/2003 3:47:19 PM EST by CobaltBlue
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/863159/posts
Early Evidence Of Fire Found
Discovery News | 10-17-2003 | Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 10/19/2003 7:26:28 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004075/posts
Tools Unlock Secrets Of Early Man
BBC | 12-14-2005 | Mark Kinver
Posted on 12/14/2005 5:26:31 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540524/posts
Delving Deep Into Britain’s Past
BBC | 10-1-2006 | Paul Ricon
Posted on 10/01/2006 2:18:29 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711701/posts
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