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Words related to sapa and saba occur widely throughout insular Southeast Asia as placenames were they are derived from ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/12/glossary-sapa.html

A press relase of an article suggesting an early diffusion of the bottle gourd from Asia to America is posted below.The f ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/12/ancient-humans-brought-bottle-gourds.html

The map of the Tahitian navigator Tupaia is important because it documents the existence of what has been called a "dynamic cognitive ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/12/glossary-tupaias-map.html

A secret society may be described as a society known or thought to exist that strives to conceal its membership, meetings, laws, orga ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/12/glossary-secret-societies.html

The symbol of the Mountain of Fire is connected through the ages, and in many cultures, with immortality and "Paradise."I ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/12/glossary-mountain-of-fire.html

Archaeological findings suggest the turtle was important to the material and religious culture in Asia and the Pacific from very earl ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/01/glossary-turtle.html

I'm forwarding this message posted by Torsten Pedersen on the Cybalist discussion group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist). I s ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/01/article-more-on-single-origin-of.html

James George Frazer popularized the idea of the sacred king in his seminal work The Golden Bough. Frazer formed di ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/01/glossary-sacred-king.html

The dog star has through the ages been associated with Sirius and/or less frequently the planet Venus.The name of Sirius ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/01/glossary-dog-star.html

Early proponents of diffusionism have suggested the existence of ancient sun-worshipping argonauts who explored the equatorial region ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/01/glossary-exploration-ancient-sea.html

The ancient Indian astronomers placed the location of Yamakoti in the East precisely one quarter of the world's circumference from La ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/02/glossary-yamakoti.html

The elixir that promotes health, rejuvenates, prolongs life or even grants immortality is included among the forms of what Stephen Op ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/02/glossary-elixir.html

In Moorish Spain universities arose in cities like Toledo, dominated by Moor and Jewish scholars, with great emphasis on the fields o ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/02/glossary-conjunctions-and-astrology.html

In Parzival, the genealogy of the Angevin dynasty and King Arthur traces their lineage back to the land of Feimurgan, aka Morg ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/02/glossary-fairy-kingdoms-of-europe.html

Medieval Islamic texts used the word Mihraj or similar forms like Mihrjan to describe the king of the Zabag empire in t ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/02/glossary-mihraj.html

The Greek word gymnosophist means literally "naked sage" or "naked sophist." It was used to describe classes of "priests" or a ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/02/glossary-gymnosophists.html

The word "Plantagenet" arises as a surname for a medieval dynasty originating from the county of Anjou (Angevins) in the 12th century ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/02/glossary-plantagenet.html

A new study focused on the composition of stone tools in Neolithic Southeast China suggests trade between islands off the coast of Fu ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/03/news-more-evidence-of-neolithic.html

In anthropological and historical literature, the horse is most often viewed as a Central Asian domesticate diffused by "Aryans." br ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/03/glossary-horse-in-southern-asia.html

According to research by Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia during the 17th century had 5 percent of its population living in urban areas, ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/03/glossary-urbanization-southeast-asian.html

In the lore of the cosmic mountain and axis mundi we find repeatedly the theme of the "Magnetic Mountain" or the "Magne ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/03/glossary-magnetic-mountain.html

Zambales is the name of a mountain range and corresponding biogeographic zone along the eastern edge of Zambales Province in the Cent ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/03/glossary-zambales-mountains-sambal.html

Southeast Asian metallurgy has been a source of controversy since the early dating of metal technology in places like Ban Chiang and ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/03/metallurgy-southeast-asian-glossary.html

The jar lids mentioned in the article below are similar are another link to Neolithic pottery in Eastern Indonesia and the Philippine ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/ancient-pottery-from-vanuatu-might.html

I would not be surprised if they found these early horses came largely from Yunnan or elsewhere in the South.The Shang dy ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/chinese-archaeologists-probe-origin-of.html

Rising majestically over an expansive flat plain, Mount Arayat commands views from all directions over much of Central Luzon. b ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/mount-arayat-glossary_05.html

Rising majestically over an expansive flat plain, Mount Arayat commands views from all directions over much of Central Luzon. b ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/mount-arayat-glossary.html

The article below discusses artifacts taken from wrecks found on the "silk road of the sea" off coastal Vietnam probably better descr ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/ancient-pottery-found-on-vietnams.html

Ancient Artifacts Unearthed in Lopburihttp://www.thaisne ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/ancient-bronze-artifacts-bell-found-at.html

The article below on the great archaeologist Yosihiko Sinoto, who studied Tahitian culture, has some nice photos of artifacts includi ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/yosihiko-sinoto-devoted-to-discovery.html

One stone drill bit found at the Anhui site was only .15 millimeters wide about the same as a strand of hair.Northern Anh ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/superb-drilling-technology-at-ancient.html

Nam Bo is in southern Vietnam. In ancient times, what is now Vietnam was divided between the Austro-Asiatic-speaking Viet ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/scientists-release-new-studies-on-nam.html

That the people living in the "Ring of Fire" in Asia and the Pacific region should hold volcanoes in awe should come as no surprise. ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/volcano-mythology-in-asia-pacific.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-13-statue_x.htm?csp=34Easter Island statue heads home img src=../i ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/easter-island-statue-heads-home.html

More information on the headless "Lapita" skeletons found in Vanuatu. The reports come from the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association C ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-on-lapita-skeletons-from-efate.html

In the Philippines and neighboring regions, the use of magnets by indigenous shamans and doctors for healing and occult purposes is v ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/04/magnetism-ancient.html

The movie, The Da Vinci Code, is scheduled for release this May. The film covers many subjects also dicussed in this blog, or least t ...
http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/05/quests-and-da-vinci-code.html