This interesting article appeared in the LA Times while I was out of town. It discusses the work Dr. John Johnson of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and others are doing with mitochondrial DNA in living Native Americans and prehistoric remains and what it has to say about the peopling of the New …
Author: Reid Farmer
Steve Releases the Pigeons
In Magdalena. Plus the other pigeon loft.
Tired Roza
As I mentioned in my earlier post about the tazi puppies’ first time in the field, they were quite beat by the time we needed to head back to the trucks and got carried back the last little way. Some of us had security blankets when we were little. Roza has a securty chair, that …
Back to the Truck
As Plummer is nine years old, my working title for this picture is “Three Middle-aged Guys Headed Back to the Truck.”
Tazi Disposition
It’s obvious from this picture of Connie bonding with the girls that tazis are vicious brutes prone to terrorizing small children and unfit for human companionship.
First Time Out
Hanging out at this blog, I have obviously been reading about and seeing pictures of tazis forever. Finally in Magdalena I got to see and interact with these fascinating dogs and see them in action. We’ve all been looking at pictures of the puppies, so it was a thrill to be able to go out …
Up on Mt. Baldy
While visiting in Magdalena, Steve took us on a drive up to Mt. Baldy in the Cibola National Forest south of town. There we were treated to an amazingly spectacular view of the area to the west. I took some views with my film camera, and if any of them do justice when I get …
Reid’s Back
I have not been blogging the last couple of weeks as Connie and I were on vacation from September 3 until yesterday. We were on a driving tour of Arizona and New Mexico that included a visit with Steve and Libby in Magdalena. We saw lots on the trip that I will post on, but …
Homo floresiensis Controversy
A couple of years ago, the discovery of 18,000 year-old diminutive human bones on the Indonesian island of Flores, set off a big stir in the popular press. The discoverers characterized this as a separate species of small humans, Homo floresiensis, and they were commonly referred to as “hobbits” on television and in the papers. …
Aztec Cannibalism
Wire services have released this piece on a project near Calpulalpan, Mexico that has unearthed direct evidence that Aztecs sacrificed and ate a party of Spanish conquistadors, their allies and camp followers during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Ritual sacrifice and cannibalism by the Aztecs has been pretty well attested, though lately some have tried …