BACKGROUND Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) hypervariable region (HVR) sequences of prehistoric Polynesian chicken samples reflect dispersal of two haplogroups--D and E--by the settlers of the Pacific. The distribution of these chicken haplogroups has been used as an indicator of human movement. Recent analyses suggested similarities between prehistoric Pacific and South American chicken samples, perh...

The study of prehistoric mapping in Europe and its borderlands, as in other continents, requires a new beginning. In the past scholars have been handicapped not only by a severe shortage of evidence but also by misguided attitudes toward the intellectual capacity of early man. In addition, they have failed to consider either the diagnostic characteristics of prehistoric maps or the principles t...

Cosmology has been formulated with four cosmic elements Water, Earth, Air and Heat (Fire). They are really the raw materials of creation. As final products in man there is Body, Spirit. and Soul. As ino-qanic substances they would be Salt, Mercury and Sulphur. But these as forms of matter would be Solid, Liquid and Gas (potentially). Thus the Tria Prima of Paracelsus is justifiable as represent...