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Unless otherwise noted, an image presented on these pages was found on the internet as it crossed my screen in an email or via a website. Some images came to me without attribution (e.g., viral in forwarded email). Some images were orphaned by my carelessness-- losing the original site address. If you see an uncredited image and know its source, please inform me and proper credit will be given. If you own an image that you would forbid me to use, please contact me for its immediate removal. Otherwise, this work is not commercial, and dedicated to the common enterprise of public knowledge, so we thank you for your good offices and artistic virtue.
FRONTISPIECE
The Goddess Nebula is a composite image that i formed by symmetrically arranging four copies of a single image from the Hubble Space Telescope as it focused on the region of M17, the Swan Nebula on May 29-30, 1999. For details of the original image, visit the Hubble website.Figure 0.1 Grasp of Possibility
Someone compiled several pages of photos, including this, depicting a variety of persons unknown holding sun or moon. It became a viral email which was forwarded around the world, and to me by my sister. The stone pillar upon which this fellow stands was originally marked by four letters, apparently meaningless graffiti, which i modified to read META.
Figure 1.1 Paths of Human MigrationThe map is borrowed (and slightly modified) from a 13APR05 BBC News science article about "research based on DNA testing of 100,000 people from indigenous populations around the world." The Genographic Project is given as the source for the article which goes on to say, "Evidence from genetics and archaeology places the origin of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. The first moderns to leave the continent set off around 60,000 years ago. This map shows first migratory routes taken by humans, based on surveys of different types of the male Y chromosome."Figure 1.2 THE FERTILE CRESCENT circa 1200 BCE
From Goshen to Ur (map has nice color but Biblical!)
http://www.hope.edu/academic/religion/bandstra/RTOT/INTRO/INT_FA.JPGFigure 1.3 Greek city-states and colonies 750-490 BCE
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MAPS
Go here for more:
http://www.teacheroz.com/generalancient.htmNice overview of world
http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/archatlas/GlobalView/GlobalView.htmMap Europe, North Africa and West Asia Regions -> http://www.unc.edu/awmc/awmcmap50.html
Jared Diamond's map of fertile crescent (poor color contrast!)
http://www.libfind.unl.edu/rhames/courses/orig_agri_tur.html
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