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Tagsprehistory (4), timeline (4), iconography (4), event horizons (3), diagnostic artifacts (2), TimeMaps(r) (2), Pacific prehistory (2), regions (2), (2), cross-cultural (2) — see all tags

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GroupsAncient China, Ancient History, Art History, Bookshelf of the Damned, Travel and Exploration literature, World Religions

Favorite authorsSir Grafton Elliot Smith (Shared favorites)

About meI am building a 4 dimensional database of the prehistory of the cultures around the Pacific. I call it Pacific Ancient Voyagers in honor of one of the active threads I find running through much of our earliest past. Stack layers of time, mapped with the cultural expansion or contraction of many groups up through time, and you'll have a growing sense of the process of interaction and isolation across geography. Using windows to display artifacts from separate cultures and eras we can zero in on those eras where cultures most likely overlapped. The more images and descriptions of different cultures and different era and areas the more accurate our view of the real "Shape of Time". I sell the purest natural spring water in western Washington delivered to homes and businesses to fund this project. I am male, healthy, and especially like good food, music, conversation and dance when I can.

About my libraryMost of this collection supports the image and map collection of the four dimensional database of Pacific prehistory you read about up stairs there. Art history, anthropology, early travel writing, archaeology, historical atlases, books on ships, early boats, and sailing canoes, or the 'Book of Furniture' to get the technical language of thrones. Because some surprisingly useful artifact descriptions are often glossed over in academic writing, we've got lots of books on that pop-science genre 'ancient astronauts' and on Atlantis. These books are sources of object distributions from which we create transparent stacks of sequential event horizons. Stack enough transparent temporal distributions one on another and we discover the shape of culture change across geography as well as up through time. Some titles are about the technologies to create this four dimensional mapstack. I even enjoy food, music, great and fiction books.

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Member sinceDec 4, 2008

Currently readingHistory of the conquest of Mexico : and, History of the conquest of Peru by William H Prescott