Archive for February, 2007
Four Stone Hearth Letters
The Four Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology. Anthropology is the study of humankind, throughout all times and places. This discourse focuses primarily on four lines of research:
* socio-cultural anthropology* bio-physical anthropology* archaeology* linguistic anthropology
Each one of these subfields represent a stone in our hearth, a blog carnival aims to publish [...]
Biblical Archeaology: Tomb of Jesus?
James Cameron is to release a documentary that claims to reveal the discovery of the tomb of Jesus Christ. He claims the evidence is statistical analysis and DNA… showing the Messiah was buried next to his wife, Mary Magdalene and their son, Judah (the “Grandson of God?”).Before I read further in the article, my first [...]
Development of farming compared and contrasted between two regions: the Tehuacan Valley in Mesoamerica and the Levant in the Near East
Several hypotheses exist to explain the development of agriculture: Childe’s oasis theory; Sauer’s sedentary hypothesis; and Binford’s marginal habitat hypothesis.
V.G. Childe’s oasis theory proposed that major climate changes following the Pleistocene created “oases” of habitable regions, which forced humans into close proximity to plants and animals, causing them to develop familiarity with each other. [...]
(FICTION) A Day in the Life of Aqhat -a Mesopotamian Farm Boy
This is the first time I’ve posted any fiction here at Hot Cup of Joe, but I thought I’d share this short, short story. It’s only a few paragraphs and lends itself well to a blog post. I was tasked once during a class to come up with a bit of creative writing that gave [...]
Four Stone Hearth: Special Edition
Boa’s Blog was originally scheduled to host Four Stone Hearth today, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I’m going to substitute as host today.
Edit: As it happens, Boa’s Blog did have the Four Stone Hearth up, so let me extend my apologies for overstepping. Kambiz and I were online last night and realized that there hadn’t [...]
The Rise of Sumerian Culture
There are those that might argue that no other single culture had such a lasting impact on humanity as that of the Sumerian. This is a bold position, but one that I hope to support at least well enough to give you a new perspective on Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations and, perhaps, modernity.
In [...]
ArtiFACTS: Recent News in Archaeology and Anthropology
Second Temple in Jerusalem in wrong spot!, Bulgarian archaeologists want higher wages, New Discovery of Old Sarcophagi in Egypt, and the 5,000 year-old embrace will go uninterrupted.
These are some interesting stories and their links and discussion is below the fold!Second Temple is in the wrong spot? Proffessor Joseph Patrich of the Hebrew University Institute [...]
The Gall of Some People
Up to 25% of all people have gallstones, according to Wikipedia. And, I can attest, they can cause pain. A recent lull in my posting here is due to having surgery on Thursday to remove my gallbladder. It all started several months ago with a few mild episodes. What I thought was gas or indigestion [...]
Kevin Trudeau: Pseudo-Advocate for the Consumer
Kevin Trudeau has been a topic of concern since my very first post here at Hot Cup of Joe. I’ve received lots of e-mail and comments and Trudeau continues to be one of the most consistent search hits from places like Google. All this in spite of the fact that my blog is mostly an [...]
