I got my January issue of American Antiquity in today’s mail and it has a very interesting article entitled “Late Pleistocene Horse Hunting at the Wally’s Beach Site (DhPg-8), Canada.” It’s written by B. Kooyman, L.V. Hills, P. NcNeil and S. Tolman and describes a Clovis age (11,300 – 11,000 BP) site on a riverbank …
Author: Steve Bodio
“Carnigan”?
That’s what NM falconer and longdog man calls attendees at a feast where all the dishes are meat. This atricle from the Christian Scence Monitor suggests that most Argentinians deserve the label. “Half an hour later, he lays on the small intestine (chinchulin), and later the sweet breads (molleja), maybe a kidney. These are the …
Great Bear
Walter Hingley has sent in links here (good background) and here to the new (and new kind of ) national park in British Columbia which will contain an incredible quarter of the world’s last remaining temperate rain forests and an estimated 20% of the wild Pacific salmon. Everyone gave a little, everyone gained. Now let’s …
Real Dogs
Prairie Mary sent us to this good Times article by Ted Kerasote on overbred dogs. I only wish he hadn’t given even accidental credence to H$U$ on the way, but I expect his book, due out next year, will be well worth reading. Mary says: “l like this article very much. I’m hearing something similar …
Bennion’s Birds
I have been too busy and not all with good things– have been devoting entirely too much time to the coursing crisis–see below– while attempting not to become obsessed with it. But I have also been reviewing books (for money, hooray!), writing about fine Victorian guns (ditto) and chatting with Pluvialis about bird art, about …
Urfa and the Clash of Civilizations
We based in Urfa when we went toTurkey in December– please see archives. Despite some odd moments, I think Turkey, and even more, the “Stans” to the northeast, are the best hope for Islam to make it sanely through the next century. Therefore, Im not sure how to feel about some of the factors in …
A Curious Double Standard
Here is a link that contrasts the difference betweeen the treatment of protestors defending the right to hunt foxes and those defending the right to behead infidels. “A demonstration against the fox hunting Bill, outside Parliament: “Instantly, the police responded with a flail of truncheons. For a moment, they resembled beaters driving birds towards guns. …
Target: Coursing
As many regular readers will know, I hunt with coursing dogs– in my case, Asian tazis from Kazakhstan. Being a primitive who lives deep in the boonies, not to mention an enthusiastic carnivore, I am a hunter plain and simple. We go out, we chase, we sometimes catch, we eat (a hare recipe was recently …
The Wonderful World of Leeches
“Lost worlds” right beside us– Carl Zimmer on leech scientist Mark Siddall. A sample: “…. scientists need to find leeches with big bacteria-housing organs to dissect. It turns out that some of the biggest are in a species that lives just on the rear end of the hippopotamus. So Dr. Siddall has traveled to South …
Lost World!
Reid, Walter Hingley, and others have been sending me news of the wonderful “Lost World” found by ornithologist Bruce Beehler and his colleagues in New Guinea– go here and here and here for reports. Matt says: ” “He [ Beehler ] added, ‘The fact that scientists can still findnew species means there are still wild …