Chimpanzee Technology and Culture
Chimpanzee Technology and Culture By Jim R. McClanahan (Adapted from a lengthy post in the "History and the Natural Environment" subforum.) Yes, non-human primates have both technology and culture....
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Archive #7: The 1704 Letter of Pere Gozani
Archive #7: The 1704 Letter of Pere Gozani The Jesuit Jean-Paul Gozani visited the Kaifeng Jewish community in the early 18th century. He reported what he saw and heard in a letter to his superior. The...
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Attention: I'm Looking For Primate Folklore By Jim R. McClanahan I'm interested in writing a book that collects folklore about monkeys, apes, and prosimians (lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers) from all...
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Melba Ketchums Bigfoot DNA Study: The Questionable Ethics Of Creating A Journal
Melba Ketchums Bigfoot DNA Study: The Questionable Ethics Of Creating A Journal to Bypass Peer-Review By Jim R. McClanahan (Last update: 3-11-13) On November 24, 2012, Dr. Melba Ketchum, a Texas...
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Chewbacca is a Bigfoot and His Daughter is a Lemur
Chewbacca is a Bigfoot and His Daughter is a Lemur By Jim R. McClanahan (Last update: 3-1-13) Before Melba Ketchums DNA study, the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film was often considered the best piece of...
View ArticleMelba Ketchums Bigfoot DNA Study (Notes and Bibliography)
Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA Study (Notes and Bibliography) My article on Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA study is getting so long that I've almost met the size limit for an individual blog entry. I am...
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A Precursor of Religion?
A Precursor of Religion? By Jim R. McClanahan Animism is sometimes considered the earliest form of human religion. But what about before we started to think in terms of us vs. them (humans vs....
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Bigfoot Hair Braiding
Bigfoot Horse Hair Braiding By Jim R. McClanahan (Last update: 5-28-13) Melba Ketchum, the Texas veterinarian who claims to have sequenced the Bigfoot genome, has posted a picture of a horse that...
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How To Tell If A Fossil Hominid Was Bipedal
How To Tell If A Fossil Hominid Was Bipedal By Jim R. McClanahan Human evolution is obviously one of the most important aspects of human history, so I've decided to post information on how to tell...
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Book Review #1: The Cultured Chimpanzee
Book Review #1 - The Cultured Chimpanzee (2004) by William McGrew By Jim R. McClanahan What is culture? If you were to ask a lecture hall full of scholars, each one would probably give you a different...
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Was Paranthropus robustus a tool maker and user?
Was Paranthropus robustus a tool maker and user? By Jim R. McClanahan Apart from language, the manufacture and use of tools is often used to differentiate humans from animals. For instance, in his book...
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The Spotted Cat: A Study of Nazca Pottery with Feline Motif
The Spotted Cat: A Study of Nazca Pottery with Feline Motif By Jim R. McClanahan Double-spout and bridge water vessels are common in many South American cultures. Although used as far back as the...
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Witches' Knots: Their Origin, Connection to Wild Hunt Folklore, and Spread to...
Note: This is a work in progress. I just want to get my thoughts out in the open so others may take note of my research. I will post a proper article complete with citations at a later date. Interested...
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When Heroes Meet: Sun Wukong and Yue Fei In Fiction, Martial Lore, and...
When Heroes Meet: Sun Wukong and Yue Fei In Fiction, Martial Lore, and Holy Texts By Jim R. McClanahan Two of my favorite research topics are Sun Wukong (孙悟空), the immortal monkey demon-turned-Buddhist...
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Evolution in Man of Steel
Note: This article contains Man of Steel spoilers Evolution in Man of Steel By Jim R. McClanahan (Last update: 6-20-13) The new Superman film Man of Steel (2013) depicts Kryptonians as an ancient...
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Archive #8: Strange and Terrible Newes From Cambridge
Archive #8: Strange and Terrible Newes From Cambridge, Being a True Relation of the Quakers Bewitching of Mary Philips This document dated to the year 1659 tells the story of how an English woman named...
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A Jewish Ruler in Xinjiang
A Jewish Ruler in Xinjiang By Jim R. McClanahan I was contacted earlier this year by a Princeton graduate concerning my past research on the Kaifeng Jews. I'm always on the lookout for new material, so...
View ArticleKetchum Bigfoot Study Update
Ketchum Bigfoot Study Update By Jim R. McClanahan I haven't been following the Bigfoot scene for a while since Melba Ketchum disappeared after her paper on the Bigfoot genome failed to make waves. I do...
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Archive #9: The Wild Hunt
Archive #9: The Wild Hunt The "Wild Hunt" is a Europe-wide legend about various deities or historical kings leading the souls of the damned and/or recently departed on supernatural hunts through the...
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Archive #10: The Wild Hunt (2)
Archive #10: The Wild Hunt (2) The "Wild Hunt" is a Europe-wide legend about various deities or historical kings leading the souls of the damned and/or recently departed on supernatural hunts through...
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