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From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Classical Archaeology position
Summary: Boston Univ Classical archaeology positon
Keywords: Boston Classical Archaeology teaching
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:17:28 GMT
Organization: Boston University

Classical Archaeology Position

The Department of Archaeology at Boston University seeks an
archaeologist of the Graeco-Roman world at the Assistant Professor
level.  The most appropriate candidates will have experience in, and
interests in future, multi-disciplinary field research as well as a
commitment to excellence in teaching.

Ph.D. required; tenure-track appointment effective September 1, 1993
(pending budget approval).  Send nominations or applications,
including a current vita and names and addresses of three referees, by
December 1, 1992 to:

Professor James R. Wiseman
Faculty Search Committee
Boston University
Department of Archaeology
675 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

Boston University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

-- 
Al B. Wesolowsky     abw@crsa.bu.edu 
Boston University    abw@acs.bu.edu 
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Re: Egyptian life of the folk
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:37:59 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.182623.21995@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:

>Current stone building layouts look much like those many millenia ago.
>So you might infer, many daily life details are similar.
>Of course the elements of art, the names of the god(s), the language may
>change.
>A trip to a farming village in modern Egypt won't be a whole lot different
>than ancient Egypt if you can ignore all 20th century technology.

BUT, since culture is not a collection of unrelated elements, but an 
integrated whole, wouldnt such changes as "art, the names of the gods {you
can bet they're mostly called Allah now}, the language....all 20th
century technology" actually cause significant change in a society?

Also, societies are NOT static. Why would Egyptian culture have changed
so little in thousands of years when Western culture has changed so much?
And what about Islam? I doubt its effects have been slight....

-rob
From: wwedel@uswest.com (Wally Wedel)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: flint blades for medicine
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:19:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies

In article <30991@alfred.Teknowledge.COM> aterry@Teknowledge.COM (Allan 
Terry) writes:
> This isn't quite archaeological, but there seem to be a number of flint
> knappers here.  I heard that some surgeons are starting to use flint 
scapels
> for certain specific operations (e.g., eye operations) because they are
> sharper than steel.  I guess they use them once and throw them away.
> 
> Anybody know if this is true?  If so, where do they get the blades?  The
> blades must be pretty small.  I'd find it amusing to discover a knapper 
on a
> hospital payroll, but rather doubt it.

Dr. Payson Sheets at the University of Colorado does some of this with an 
eye surgeon here in town.  They no longer use flint (if they ever did), but 
special blends of glass. The idea arose from observing the sharpness of 
obsidian blades. Obsidian though, tends to shed flakes when you don't want 
it to. The idea of the new glass formulas and fabrication techniques is to 
get the sharpness of obsidian with a stable edge. The blades are indeed 
small. Eye surgeons think small!


Wally Wedel
U S WEST Communications
4001 Discovery Drive, Suite 370
Boulder, CO 80303-7813
Internet: wwedel@uswest.com  AppleLink: D5100   Voice: 303-541-6052
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
From: kyrsten@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Kyrsten Swazey)
Subject: Re: Ice Ages, Magnetic Shifts, and Evolution
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:24:04 GMT

As far as i have been led to believe, the magnetic "flip-flops" have
succeeded in changing the growth patterns of rocks.  For geologists,
this is probably fascinating.  But i have been told that these shifts
occur roughly every ten thousand years.  It would seem to me that an
event which has a marked effect on such *solid* material as rocks would
wreak havoc, as it were, among any biological forms.  Certainly the
connection between ice ages and humans is established - our adaptability
only stretches so far.  But perhaps, IMHO, the deeper inner working of
the earth had a great effect on the outer climate, leading to huge
environmental changes.  These changes, in conjunction with the earth's
inner forces, would alter the biological face of the earth.  Does this
make sense or am spouting nonesense?  Am i on the wrong track?
From: jcollier@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (John Donald Collier)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: Bison kill sites
Date: 4 Oct 92 05:25:06 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne, Australia

In <LONGSHOT.92Oct3193626@krypton.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> longshot@krypton.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Erik J. Green) writes:

>	Could someone out there post/email a list of paleoindian bison
>kill sites in north america?  I was on a fieldwork trip today with a grad

I am not sure what counts as paleoindian, but a major bison kill
site is at Head-Smashed-In, Alberta. (It was named for an unknown 
native of profound curiousity who decided to watch the kill from
the bottom of the buffalo jump.) The site has been in use
for a long time, as it is ideal for a number of reasons. You
could probably write them for more information.

-- 
John Collier 			Email: jcollier@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
HPS -- U. of Melbourne		  	Fax:   61+3 344 7959
Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3052
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
From: petty@ike.navo.navy.mil (Jim Petty)
Subject: Indians Groups
Organization: Naval Oceanographic Office
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:50:30 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-5606]: ike.navo.navy.mil

Could someone please sort out this mess for me.  Im currently doing research on a 
specific Indian tribe by the name of Muskeagean.  After reviewing numerous
documents and books, I cannot fine these Indians of Mississippi.  However, I have
found the name Acolapissa, associated with the Muskeagean.  Question, are the
Muskeagean Indians really the Acolapissa?.  Second, in research books I have also
found the Muskogee Indians, located in the same general area; southwest
Mississippi, and southeastern Louisiana, as the Muskeagean Indians. Question, are
the Muskeagean Indians really the Muskogee?.  Last but not least, I have heard
that the Muskeagean Indians are really a band of Choctow Indians that drifted
south into southern Mississippi.  
Please if anyone can shead a little lite on this matter I would be truly thankful
for your effort and support.  Please post as soon as possible.  Thanks in
advance. Im desperate.
From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: Ice Ages, Magnetic Shifts, and Evolution
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:35:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Unocal Corporation

In article <1992Sep29.173533.17006@u.washington.edu> monaghan@cac.washington.edu (Tracy Monaghan {IS}) writes:
>Magnetic shifts could affect evolution in at least two ways.
>
>The magnetosphere protects the earth from solar radiation, diverting it
>towards the poles.  During a shift, the lost of this protection could have
>dramatic effects on life.  It could also affect weather/climate patterns.
>
>A second effect would be on animal migration patterns if the animals
>relied at least partly on the earth's magnetic field.  Changes in
>migration patterns would effect other animals (and people) who rely on
>the migrating animals.

The earth has undergone thirty some long term reversals since the age
of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago without much noticable effects on
life.  There may have been several hundred "mini-reversals" during that
time period.  Since rocks only deposit a percent or so of the time, many of
these min-reversals are to verify from place to place.

A few reversals are captured in regions of multiple lava flows.
The magnetic field intensity does not go to zero during a reversal,
although it declines to 10-20% of normal.  When you study spherical geometry
you'll see that spherical objects such as fields can be described in terms
of increasingly crenulated sub-fields.  The strongest field is the two-bump
field called the dipole.  Then there is a four-bump, eight-bump, etc.
During a reversal, the intensity of these bumpier compenents increases.
It may throw off a compass although.

In face, we might be in the process of a magnetic reversal at the moment.
Historical normal is about 0.75 to 1.0 gauss intensity measured
from pottery and rocks compared to those magnetized under known field strengths.
The strength of the field has decreased 7-8% since the first direct measurements
about 200 years ago.  This extrapolates to zero about 4000 A.D.
No need to worry because the evidence is the field doesn't get close to zero.
From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: Concrete Pyramids
Keywords: Egyptian Pyramids Concrete
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:25:20 GMT
Organization: Boston University

In article <752@capmkt.COM> charles@capmkt.COM (Charles Neveu) writes:
>I've heard that someone claims that the Egyptian pyramids are not made of 
>quarried rock, but of concrete. Does anyone know the source of this rumor?

This particular bit of lunacy is propounded in "The Pyramids: An Enigma
Solved," Dr. Joseph Davidovits and Margie Morris. New York: Hippocrene
Books (1988). 

I believe Hippocrene, like Vantage, is a vanity press. The book displays
throughout an egregious and unconscionable ignorance of archaeological
research; this will come as no surprise to most.

                                   ---Al

-- 
Al B. Wesolowsky         abw@crsa.bu.edu      Chresmology
Boston University                            (cheap rates)
From: monaghan@cac.washington.edu (Tracy Monaghan {IS})
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: Ice Ages, Magnetic Shifts, and Evolution
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:35:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UW Computing

Magnetic shifts could affect evolution in at least two ways.

The magnetosphere protects the earth from solar radiation, diverting it
towards the poles.  During a shift, the lost of this protection could have
dramatic effects on life.  It could also affect weather/climate patterns.

A second effect would be on animal migration patterns if the animals
relied at least partly on the earth's magnetic field.  Changes in
migration patterns would effect other animals (and people) who rely on
the migrating animals.



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From: ed_eck@milkwy.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: Ice Ages, Magnetic Shifts, and Evolution
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:34:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Sep28.232404.6157@eos.arc.nasa.gov>, 
kyrsten@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Kyrsten Swazey) writes...

> [Magnetic shifts] occur roughly every ten thousand years.  It 
would seem to me that an
>event which has a marked effect on such *solid* material as rocks would
>wreak havoc, as it were, among any biological forms.  


On the other hand, a lot of people have gone through MRI (Magnetic 
Resonance Imaging), which uses a huge (make that HUGE) magnetic 
field, without any problem. I can't really see that a shift in the
field would cause much of a problem--might disturb birds' migratory
patterns and inconvenience a few bacteria (and confuse several
thousand Boy- and Girl-scouts).

There was an article in Scientific American within the last couple months
on changes in the magnetic field through the ages. A graph showed 
what must have been several dozen reversals in it's direction within
the past several million years. Given that many changes, I doubt there's
any correlation with extinction events. (BTW, what changes do the shifts
cause in rocks, besides change the magnetic orientation?)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,soc.culture.celtic,soc.history
From: cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster)
Subject: Re: Who lived in Great Britain before the Kelts?
In-reply-to: newt@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk's message of 1 Oct 92 14:20:47 GMT
Organization: pubs
	<1992Sep30.084037.9447@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
	<16872104DC.UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 92 11:41:44 CDT

Mark Eaton writes:

   Im reading Colin Renfrews 'Archaeology and Language, the puzzle of
   indo-european origins'. excellent, Id recommend it...

   Renfrew seems to think that IE culture was not, for the most part,
   carried by nomadic invaders, but was spread from community to
   community, accompanying the superior tech (equestrianery, wheel,
   bronze working)... and IE languages of course.

I'm unfamiliar with this book, but I was quite interested in a
Scientific American article from about last February about the spread
of genetic and linguistic groups.  The remarkable finding it presents
is that linguists and geneticists--working independently--determined
almost the same sequence of migrations and divergence over the last
100,000 years.

The picture they present is subtler and more interesting than the old
scheme of three distinct "races" (with its corollary, and to me
stupid, question, did the human race start in one place or several?).
The scheme shown in the article shows a single origin in Africa,
followed by a series of migrations and divisions.  Rather than
speaking of "races" as absolute and distinct, this scheme speaks of
how recently a group separated from other groups.  

By this criterion, Africans are the most distinct "race" because
their division from other human groups occurred earliest.  Also (I
think I'm remembering this correctly), northeast Asians are more
closely related to Europeans than they are to east-central and
southeast Asians.  (And the northeast Asians are, of course, the
origin of indigenous American groups.)

Did anyone else see the article?  Is this view becoming established?

Chris Brewster
cb@cray.com
From: chris.wbst@xerox.com (Chris Heiny)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: Ice Ages, Magnetic Shifts, and Evolutio
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:32:14 GMT
Reply-To: chris.wbst129@xerox.com
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Webster NY

The exact mechanism causing flips is unknown.  All the proposed explanations I know 
of rely on internal mechanisms (like the 'superplumes` that Fred mentioned), rather 
than Velikovskian flybys and collisions.  In addition to the `superplume` idea, there 
is also a theory that the internal behavior of the core dynamo is like a fractal with 
a couple of attractors (corresponding to the normal and reversed polarity of the 
field).  If we could actually observe a flip in the process of happening, it would 
be a big help!

One of the important arguments against Velikovskian explanations is that the flips 
happen with sufficient frequency that there ought to be a lot of evidence of a lot 
of massive objects flitting through the solar system on trajectories that bring them 
near earth, but there isn't such evidence.

							Chris
From: fred@somalia.earth.nwu.edu (Fred Marton)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: Ice Ages, Magnetic Shifts, and Evolutio
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:11:56 GMT
Organization: Geological Sciences Department, Northwestern University

In article <1992Sep30.195044.18504@sunova.ssc.gov> renfro@geewhiz.ssc.gov (James Renfro) writes:
>I am not trained in the subject, but much interested.  Could Chris, or someone,  
>explain the mechanism of the _flip_ in the magnetic field.  Does it happen  
>slowly, as Chris perhaps suggests - a few degrees per thousand years - or does  
>it occur suddenly, caused by some catastrophe, such as a precession of the  
>whole globe caused by some near-miss fly-by of an asteroid or comet or  
>something?  I know Velikovsky (sp?) theories are not now in vogue, but cant  
>help thinking of _his_ sort of catastrophe.  Any small candle of enlightenment  
>will be better than cursing this darkness of ignorance.  Alexander Pope should  
>have said that any little bit of learning was better than nothing.
>
>Thanks,
>Jim

Overall, the flips seem to take a few thousand years, nice and slow for us geo-types.
One current theory on the mechanism deals with `superplumes' rising from the
region of the core-mantle boundary.  When these occur, so they say, you're removing
a *lot* of heat from the outer core region and this perturbs the dynamo that is
producing the magnetic field.  They are also people who are trying to examine the
link, if any, between these superplumes and mass extinctions, such as the K-T event
65 Ma.

fred
 
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From: odlin@reed.edu (Iain Odlin)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: The Sphinx
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:49:36 GMT
Organization: The Stuffed Animal Trauma Team  (We're Trained Professionals)


  Recently, I heard (on the news, of all places) that someone had claimed that
  the Sphinx was several thousand years older than the pyramids because (A)
  the Sphinx looks nothing like Cheops, and (B) the base of the Sphinx shows
  "evidence" of water erosion.

  Perhaps I'm wrong, but (A) don't we have exactly one known statue of Cheops
  and a very few paintings?  And (B) wasn't the Sphinx made from the leftover
  blocks from the pyramid quarries?

  Comments?  Better observations?  Anyone know "the rest of the story" about
  the claims?

-- 
 --------------------------------- Iain Odlin ---------------------------------
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From: woody@knapper.cactus.org (Woody Baker)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: surgical bifaces
Date: 28 Sep 1992 18:12:30 -0500
Organization: Aurora Contracting
Reply-To: "Woody Baker" <woody@knapper.cactus.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Well, to my knowlege, there arn't any knappers specializing in making bi-faces
for surgery.  There are, as I understand it, glass or diamond scapels for
eye surgery. I seem to remember seeing a note somewhere to that effect.
Glass fractures to nearly a molecular edge (so much so, that just a few
minutes exposure to air will degrade the edge somewhat).  In transmission
microscopy, the microtome blade is made of glass.  Generaly, they are made
from a small square of glass, and a special pliers is used to snap the 
square diagonaly.  This produces an extremely sharp edge that has to be
used within just a few minutes or it will go dull.  I don't remember the
thickness of the slices taken, but they are exceedingly thin.  In many cases
thinner than a cell.  I've watched it done.  One problably could make
something similar for glass scapels, something that would take a particlular
shaped piece of glass, and press a bladelet off of it.  The catch here, is
that the things are going to be so fine, that you can't use them for anything
that requires any pressure, and they are going to be fragil, and might 
shed chips.  I do think that they use a fractured diamond scalpel for some
delicate eye surgery.
Cheers
Woody
-- 
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"If you ain't bleedin' you ain't knappin'" ---> go ahead, ask me...

woody@knapper.cactus.org
woody@chinacat.unicom.com (temporary) is forwareded to woody@knapper
From: kerry@is-next.umd.edu (Kerry Ogata)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Graduate programs in historical archaeology
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:47:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Comp. Sci. Ctr., Univ. of MD, College Park, MD 20742
Originator: kerry@is-next.umd.edu


Hi, everyone.  I am a senior Anthropology major and will be graduating
in May.  I'm planning to attend grad school to study historical archaeology.
My interests include African-American archaeology and gender issues in
archaeology.

So far, I've received information from a number of schools which offer
specialized instruction/programs in historical archaeology.  I was
wondering if anyone here attends these schools and could tell me a little
bit about them from a student's perspective.  I've often found that the
school's catalogue or brochure gives a very different picture of the
school than its students!

Specifically I'm interested in observations about the faculty and courses,
although I would like to know about non-academic aspects of the school as
well. 

The schools I'm considering are:

Boston University
University of South Carolina @ Columbia
Univesity of Nevada @ Reno
Oregon State University
Cornell University

Also, if you know anything about other schools with an emphasis in historical 
archaeology, please let me know.  Thanks for the information!

Kerry
-- 
kerry@is-next.umd.edu / kogata@wam.umd.edu
Academic Software Development Group, Computer Science Center
University of Maryland, College Park
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
From: bferguso@techbook.com (Robert Ferguson)
Subject: Rabbinical Literature
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 04:57:24 GMT

   Does anybody know of a newsgroup which would be appropriate for asking 
   questions about Jewish Rabbinical literature? Questions  such as, "what
   editions of the Talmud are currently in print?" Question that pertain to
   the historical/archaeological/theological content of the literature.

   Thanks,

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Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
From: petty@ike.navo.navy.mil (Jim Petty)
Subject: Pearl River/Muskeagean Indians
Organization: Naval Oceanographic Office
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:58:13 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-9112]: ike.navo.navy.mil

Looking for information on the French explorer La Salle, and his expeditions 
into Mississippi via the Pearl River. Additionally, Im looking for information
on his accounts of the Muskeagean Indians on his expeditions.  Thanks in Advance
Jim Petty
From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: red paint people
Date: 28 Sep 92 07:27:40 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.



I just watched a great video called Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People.
I have two questions:
(1) where can I get a list of other great archaeology and anthropology videos?
(2) is there a good book to read about the Lost Red Paint People?
(3) What developments have taken place in the last few years since the video
    was made?

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu