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Still trucking

17 November 2009

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Tags: transport

Posted by Jean M

Naturally, as soon as I threw up my page on early transport, I realised its inadequacies. It is amazing how much how much has been discovered in this field in the 21st century. I'm starting to feel that I was insane to attempt a resume. But that's nothing new. I've been having those feelings ever since I started delving into the...

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Prehistoric transport

12 November 2009

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Tags: chariots, horses, wheel, transport

Posted by Jean M

Back in August I promised that I would throw up a page on early transport "in a couple of days". Those days have turned into months. Things kept getting in the way. But I haven't forgotten and here it is: Prehistoric transport. Just how did people get about before the internal combustion engine?

As ever I am interested in...

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Forging Identities

07 November 2009

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Tags: archaeology, Bronze Age, aDNA

Posted by Jean M

For the last month or so I've been compiling a list of current research projects on migration...

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From Mesopotamia to Iberia

06 November 2009

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Tags: Copper Age, Maikop, Iberia

Posted by Jean M

The Spanish and Basque contingent on the DNA Forums has been expressing deep dissatisfaction with the Peopling of Europe...

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Steppe migrations

05 November 2009

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Tags: horses, nomads, steppe, migrations

Posted by Jean M

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Opening the shutters

05 November 2009

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Posted by Jean M

Welcome to my place. Here's where I can let you know what is new at Distant Past. Those are the pages I keep flinging out to the wide world, and then hastily revising, about those ancestors of ours so far back that we will never know their names.

We are in the midst of a ferment of new ideas from genetics, archaeology and linguistics about...

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