Dogs love the beach. Mine have been telling me that for years. So after we got our new Australian Shepherd, Sadie, we knew we had to take her down and introduce her. It was great for her to go with our Lab, Maggie, who could show her the joys of the rotting kelp, stinking crab …
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Our Minds are in the Pleistocene II
Jackson Kuhl attempts to take on his fellow TCS Daily contributor Max Border’s assertion that humans have an instinct for egalitarianism due to our long period of evolution in band societies, something that I posted on here. Kuhl does us a service by pointing out a quote from one of my favorite archaeologists, Kent Flannery …
Overhunting in Prehistoric California
I want to thank Chas Clifton at Natureblog for reminding me of this story with his post. Jack Broughton, an archaeologist at the University of Utah, has conducted a detailed analysis of faunal remains from the Emeryville Shellmound. This was a significant prehistoric site in the San Francisco Bay area. The turn of the century …
Clive’s Tortoise
News comes from India that a tortoise believed to be 250 years old has died in a zoo in Kolkata. A good “paper trail” exists to document this long life span as the animal was the pet of Robert Clive (1725-1774) British military commander and founder of the British Empire in India. We know that …
Not Much Time
Stop the California coursing ban!
Pigeons of the Middle East..
.. and North Africa. Janet Jones, the archaeologist who was one of my companions on my Turkish Kurdistan trip in December, has been in Egypt, where she photographed these adobe dovecotes. The dovecotes are the “beehives” on the roofs. The birds I saw in Turkey, especially in and around the city of Urfa, fascinated me …
Catchup
A roundup of bloggish news, brief but I hope interesting. “Wild Play”: Alpha Enviros don’t grow in front of computer screens. When John Craighead and Jane Goodall are on the same page, maybe we’d best listen. (John must be ninety now– we should all be that tough). Go to Matt’s blog for an important post …
Pack Pics
The one above shows the pack’s canine condo in the background.
Missing
We have been missing in action for a week– cooking, cooking, eating, eating, and (though I rather hate its use as a verb) “partying”. To quote from a letter I sent to the Alpha Enviro: “We have spent most of the week cooking for the two day end- of- the- season hunt and party of …
Random Beach Art
I think a lot of art-oriented people live around here. While walking at the beach where we sighted the infamous driftwoodman, we saw some new installations the other day. This one was rectilinear. This one incorporated several holes. The dogs were convinced there were gophers down in them and I had to shoo them away …