Food and Radiocarbon testing.......

This is a response on Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, to see more context and to better understand what I am talking about visit this website. This website is Mr. Ross's and he is awesome!! Well anyways, enough of my random rants read on.....

Explain how radiocarbon dating works and some problems inherent with this kind of testing.

Radio carbon testing is when archaeologists measure the amount of 14 carbon still remaining in an object and take that and compare it to the ration of 14 carbon to 12 carbon . You would use this process to see how old a food residue is . Unfortunately this at times can be inaccurate due to the fact that carbon amounts in the atmosphere change slightly over time and animals move and alter the evidence of the food residue.

Where would you have wanted to live 1,000 years ago for the food that was native to the region?

If I were to live back in the day I think I would live in Mesoamerica because the food that that region hosted were well most familiar to me. I have nothing against new foods but if I were going to base a lifetime on where I was going to live because of the food I would like reassurance that the food is ok at least. Squash, beans, and corn are all pretty ok foods. If the squash is cooked right it is good, and beans well you can't have a burrito with out beans. Just kidding, but beans are pretty ok as well. and as for corn well..... corn is just GOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would like to live in a place where the food is familiar and where I know I can be nutritionally balanced.

Corn rocks your socks!!!!

Janea <3

Atahuallpa's servant

This is a story inspired by the mysteries presented in chapter 3 of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. All due apologies for not posting this story earlier I have been having technical difficulties.

I always served my king Atahualpa very dutifully, I was there whenever he needed me and likewise my fellow servants did the same. One day after returning from a trip to another land that Atahualpa had befriended, we got a strange message from a very pale looking man, he spoke in gibberish that my king did not understand. Confused my king decided that we should go meet them seeing as they might be gods. We did not fear gods so we went in all the glory and honor so as to show our appreciation of the gods. We carried litters filled with our priests and our healing men, and Atahuallpa of course. We dressed Atahuallpa in his finery and placed him upon his litter, then I as well as 19 other men picked up Atahuallpa and carried him upon our shoulders, although the litter was heavy we carried this burden with grace and style, we were proud to be the official carriers of our king Atahuallpa. When we got to the center or the meeting ring of Cajamarca a short pudgy little male god clothed in black approached my master bearing a book in his hands. Like the other strange looking gods he also spoke gibberish.

The fat little man god handed my Attahuallpa the book and then proceeded while Atahuallpa was looking at this gift to try and take it back. Attahuallpa was bewildered and astonished that this "god" was trying to to take back the gift. Surely the gods knew that you were not to take back gifts that you had bestowed upon a king. Angered, my Atahuallpa rapped the god on the knuckles and gave the god what he wanted; his book back. My king threw the book upon the ground and watched with confusement as the little fat god grew red in the face and started yelling in gibberish. then all of a sudden men or gods flew at us from all angles they started hitting us with shiny sticks that drew blood, they called them swords. Then the men came towards us and started to slay those of the loyal servants that held up Atahuallpa. Then one after another of my brothers fell, I yelled at the servants that cowered in corners and commanded them to help me hold my king up as it would be a dishonor to let our king fall. So immediately men replaced the ones that had fallen and we stood by our king in his peril. Other of my fellow brethren had taken to saving our healing man and holy men. Alas, it did not work as they suffocated the men underneath. As I watched in horror as to what was happening to my fellow brethren I saw a god advancing upon me his shiny stick pointed towards my heart, then I thought "I will soon be stripped of my life not long later Atahuallpa be stripped of his.What ever had we done to anger the gods?" I had always thought that it would be an honor to die for my king. I wanted to die for my king and you know what?...... I did.

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My theories for Cro-magnon vrs Neanderthals

Hey people sorry that this post is out of order but I have been having technical difficulties and for the longest time I couldn't post this post as the pictures were all being funky.

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Janea

To better understand what I am talking about: I am responding to chapter 1 of Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Cro-magnon vrs. Neanderthal

I doubt that the cro-magnons wiped out the neanderthals with force. I do not think they were that developed.
My theories are as follows:

I think that the cro-magnons were not any better than than the neanderthals except that they had different diseases and ways of life. The cro-magnons were really advanced in their ways of hunting and the ways that they collected their food.

The Neanderthals were a peaceful people that were immune to the diseases of their lands then the cro-magnons came and they were not violent but they wiped out several of the neanderthals by just simply arriving with diseases that the neanderthals were unaccustomed to. The other part of the reason why the neanderthals are gone is because the cro-magnons had more efficient hunting skills and then they wiped out the the neanderthals by eliminating their food sources.

hey peoples

Hey people, sorry for not posting in a while. My computer was acting up but my computer is feeling much better and has decided to co-operate so I will be posting over the next few days what I was unable to post before.


See ya,

Janea