This is what the Shaman will tell you is the origin of his knowledge and tradition. The Shaman were the first to use the ritual consumption ofhallucinogenic plantsas an aid to knowledge and healing. Shamanic traditions and massage forms still exist in Africa, Australia (amongst the Aborigines),...
We used various ancestral source pairs to investigate the genetic contribution to SDH via admixture-f3(Source1, Source2; SDH), in which significant negative Z scores (Z < -3) indicated prominent admixture events. As shown in Supplementary Fig. 2a, we observed that the combination of ANEA...
The expansion of public interest and of amateur Egyptology is shown by the rise of organizations such as the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, local chapters of ARCE (American Research Center in Egypt), and kindred groups in Britain, Australia, Spain, Japan, and elsewhere, and by...
Ancient DNA Laboratory, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia M Thomas P Gilbert Contributions C.W. conceived the project, with input from M.J.C. R.S. and F.R. contributed samples. C.W., E.C., M.J.C., M.T.P.G., C.v.M., A.R. and Y.H. designed the exp...
A modern oyster shell from Western Australia was used as a secondary reference material and was analyzed at regular intervals together with the primary reference. The accuracy of these analyses was quantified by comparison to the modern seawater value for 87Sr/86Sr of 0.7091792 ± 0.000002183...
Rice is one of the most culturally valued and widely grown crops in the world today, and extensive research over the past decade has clarified much of the narrative of its domestication and early spread across East and South Asia. However, the timing and
For example, Hamacher [25] explains: “I examined two Aboriginal oral traditions from South Australia that describe the periodic changing brightness in three pulsating, red-giant variable stars: Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis), Aldebaran (Alpha Tauri), and Antares (Alpha Scorpii). The Australian ...
Global Ecology,Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia September 2021 e-mail The repository's code and associated data are to reproduce the models presented in the following companion papers: Bradshaw, CJA, S Ulm, AN Williams, MI Bird, RG Roberts, Z Jacobs, F Laviano, LS Weyrich, T Friedri...
At c. 1300 Ma, the supercontinent Nuna was on the cusp of breakup26. At the time, most plate tectonic reconstructions place Argyle at the periphery of the McArthur-Yanliao Gulf (Fig.4), an intercontinental Mesoproterozoic basin between proto-Australia, North China, Siberia and Laurentia27,...
From documented oral traditions in Australia, the Balkans and other parts of the world we know that specialised storytellers and poets can recite from memory literally thousands of lines, in verse or prose, verbatim-word for word. But while memory is rightly considered an art in itself, it is...