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ikhet_sekhmet) wrote2017-07-30 12:51 pm
ikhet_sekhmet) wrote2017-07-30 12:51 pm
Entry tags:
- colour,
- culture: azanian,
- culture: egyptian,
- culture: greek,
- culture: indigenous australian,
- culture: levantine,
- culture: mesopotamian,
- culture: native american,
- culture: prehistoric,
- culture: ugaritic,
- figure: the amazons,
- goddess: anat,
- goddess: sekhmet,
- links,
- monsters,
- subject: cats and lions,
- subject: food and drink,
- subject: sex and gender
Links July 2017
(One of these days I would like to go back through all these jillions of links and organise them by subject. "'I would like'? I would like a trip to Europe!" - Daffy Duck)
Anat: Autonomous Goddess Of Ugarit. Presented by Ellie Wilson at the Society of Biblical Literature's annual meeting, November 1993.
Artefacts found in Pilbara cave show Aboriginal life in northern WA dates back 50,000 years (ABC, 19 May 2017) | The extraordinary science behind an Aboriginal history discovery 65,000 years in the making (SMH, 20 July 2017). "Artefacts found in Kakadu national park show that Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for a minimum of 65,000 years, 18,000 years longer than the previous estimate."
The world's oldest observatory? How Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life (Lateline, 13 October 2016) | How astronomy paved the way for terra nullius, and helped to get rid of it too (phys.org, 14 October 2016)
Ancient Humans Liked Getting Tipsy, Too (Smithsonian.com, 10 July 2017) | What wine did Jesus drink at the Last Supper? (phys.org, 17 April 2017) | Barley dormancy mutation suggests beer motivated early farmers (phys.org, 21 November 2016) | Revealing the science of Aboriginal fermentation (phys.org, 24 October 2016)
Late last year the Brooklyn Museum's Tumblr posted about the use of "Visible-Induced Luminescence imaging to map the presence of Egyptian blue". Meanwhile, the earliest known use of Egyptian blue has been identified in a bowl from the time of King Scorpion.
Archaeologists discover earliest monumental Egyptian hieroglyphs (phys.org, 26 June 2017)
DNA from ancient Egyptian mummies reveals their ancestry (Washington Post, 30 May 2017)
The origin of the tabby coat and other cat mysteries revealed (ABC Science, 20 June 2017)
Prehistoric cannibalism not just driven by hunger, study reveals (The Guardian, 6 April 2017) What ancient Egypt tells us about a world without religious conflict (The Guardian, 30 October 2015) The Faith After the Pharaohs exhibition at the British Museum.
Psychics, witches and pagans: What do people get out of alternative spirituality? (ABC Radio National, 12 February 2017)
Information-age math finds code in ancient Scottish symbols (Scientific American, 31 March 2010)
How we discovered that people have been cooking plants in pots for 10,000 years (phys.org, 24 January 2017)
Scientists find advanced geometry no secret to prehistoric architects in US Southwest (phys.org, 23 January 2017)
Why we'll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters (Medical Xpress, 31 October 2016)
Inscription About Ancient 'Monkey Colony' Survives [Daesh] Attacks (LiveScience, 9 December 2016)
Women Are the Backbone of the Standing Rock Movement (Time, 29 November 2017)
This is your brain on God: Spiritual experiences activate brain reward circuits (Medical Xpress, 29 November 2016)
Pristine pressed flower among 'jaw-dropping' bronze age finds (The Guardian, 30 September 2016)
“Gay” Caveman Wasn’t Gay… (En|Gender, 7 April 2011) "... she was trans." Or non-binary. Or...
Unearthing the origins of East Africa's lost civilization (CNN, 19 October 2015). Kilwa in Tanzania, part of the Azania trading society.
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
Anat: Autonomous Goddess Of Ugarit. Presented by Ellie Wilson at the Society of Biblical Literature's annual meeting, November 1993.
Artefacts found in Pilbara cave show Aboriginal life in northern WA dates back 50,000 years (ABC, 19 May 2017) | The extraordinary science behind an Aboriginal history discovery 65,000 years in the making (SMH, 20 July 2017). "Artefacts found in Kakadu national park show that Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for a minimum of 65,000 years, 18,000 years longer than the previous estimate."
The world's oldest observatory? How Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life (Lateline, 13 October 2016) | How astronomy paved the way for terra nullius, and helped to get rid of it too (phys.org, 14 October 2016)
Ancient Humans Liked Getting Tipsy, Too (Smithsonian.com, 10 July 2017) | What wine did Jesus drink at the Last Supper? (phys.org, 17 April 2017) | Barley dormancy mutation suggests beer motivated early farmers (phys.org, 21 November 2016) | Revealing the science of Aboriginal fermentation (phys.org, 24 October 2016)
Late last year the Brooklyn Museum's Tumblr posted about the use of "Visible-Induced Luminescence imaging to map the presence of Egyptian blue". Meanwhile, the earliest known use of Egyptian blue has been identified in a bowl from the time of King Scorpion.
Archaeologists discover earliest monumental Egyptian hieroglyphs (phys.org, 26 June 2017)
DNA from ancient Egyptian mummies reveals their ancestry (Washington Post, 30 May 2017)
The origin of the tabby coat and other cat mysteries revealed (ABC Science, 20 June 2017)
The Amazon Women: Is There Any Truth Behind the Myth? (Smithsonian Magazine, April 2014) | The kingdom of women: the society where a man is never the boss (The Guardian, 1 April 2017) The Mosuo of Tibet.
Prehistoric cannibalism not just driven by hunger, study reveals (The Guardian, 6 April 2017)
Trove of statues of lion headed goddess Sekhmet found in Luxor (SMH, 9 March 2017)
Psychics, witches and pagans: What do people get out of alternative spirituality? (ABC Radio National, 12 February 2017)
Information-age math finds code in ancient Scottish symbols (Scientific American, 31 March 2010)
How we discovered that people have been cooking plants in pots for 10,000 years (phys.org, 24 January 2017)
Scientists find advanced geometry no secret to prehistoric architects in US Southwest (phys.org, 23 January 2017)
Why we'll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters (Medical Xpress, 31 October 2016)
Inscription About Ancient 'Monkey Colony' Survives [Daesh] Attacks (LiveScience, 9 December 2016)
Women Are the Backbone of the Standing Rock Movement (Time, 29 November 2017)
This is your brain on God: Spiritual experiences activate brain reward circuits (Medical Xpress, 29 November 2016)
Pristine pressed flower among 'jaw-dropping' bronze age finds (The Guardian, 30 September 2016)
“Gay” Caveman Wasn’t Gay… (En|Gender, 7 April 2011) "... she was trans." Or non-binary. Or...
Unearthing the origins of East Africa's lost civilization (CNN, 19 October 2015). Kilwa in Tanzania, part of the Azania trading society.
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae