Category Archives: Anthropology

Patterns, Colors, Textures, Hues

Its amazing how anthropologists take a small idea which may relate to something, drill into it, produce a idea which ties that small idea to other ideas that cross cultures. Here is a small and simple one I did. I … Continue reading

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When the Lonely Hills Beckon

Sometimes when I’m commuting somewhere here; I look at the hills around Fremont and Newark here in the SF Bay area. The Hayward hills remind me of hills I used to clamber over back in the way gone days. When … Continue reading

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Posting and Routing Difficulties

Flesh is willing; but I notice a disturbing trend in blog posts these days. I am going through the week kinda busy and only doing my posts weekends. That’s not really good for me. Its funny tonite though. I’m sitting … Continue reading

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The Ultimate Habilis

I’ve blogged a few times about my habilis habits. A habilis (like homo habilis) is a tool-user. The originals lived some million years ago give or take a flaked-stone tool and were the earliest known hominid to make tools. A … Continue reading

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Times and Spaces

A few times in the past years I’ve dwelt on what it meant to be an archeologist to me. What anthropology has meant and means to me. I think there must be more than a few armchair anthropologists and I’ve … Continue reading

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Lunches, Meetings, Fun

I was lucky last week to go have lunch with my friend Jeremy from the Levanta days.  We went over to Left Bank Bistro in San Mateo for a well-deserved lunch, talk, and a really strange meetup.   What was so … Continue reading

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another test

This is a new test with a new client… Lets see how it goes

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Pausing to Reflect…

I was talking with Setuid on IRC when a question he asked prompted me to start remembering things.  He had asked for a name for a Debian virtual system and wanted a famous anthropologist/archeologist’s name.  I skittered around for a … Continue reading

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Clovis Hunters, Antiquity Stretches Out

I was amazed this morning as I perused the Yahoo! News to see a few very interesting stories that brought about some recollectioin of earlier things I had done.  One was this story regarding the prehistoric Clovis Culture in the … Continue reading

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Interesting Questions, Answers

I watch the history channel on Monday and Tuesday evenings when possible.  There are a number of shows then that I enjoy immensely.  The show Ancient Discoveries is pretty cool.  The other one I like is called Engineering an Empire … Continue reading

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