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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 11:02:05 +0000 (UTC), kai@dyna228-156.nada.kth.se
(=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai-Mikael_J=C3=A4=C3=A4-Aro?=) wrote:

>edconrad@shenhgts.net (Ed Conrad) writes:
>
>> 
>> Gee, Pseudo, I can't come up with one "really" good
>> reason. But, for now, I hope 16 will do*.
>> 
>> >  http://www.edconrad.com/ebay/Smith/z11calv.jpg
>> > [etc]
>
>I find it troublesome that you still persist in thinking that
>publishing *pictures* of your finds will convince anyone and that as
>soon as anyone questions your conclusions your response is to publish
>*more* pictures (and/or call the questioner names).
>
>What you need to do is to actually *address* questions, show
>references to your dating data, name names as to who did the testing
>on your specimens, *show* why alternate explanations are not valid and
>in general document your work better (as in not more pictures, but in
>showing with overview maps precisely where you found these items, how
>they were prepared, how they were tested etc).  The pictures you have
>up on your website are simply not sufficiently well organised, it is
>difficult to tie specimens to tests (in particular as the descriptions
>often don't match the images) and you leave out a lot of information.
>You don't need more *quantity*, you need more *quality* in your
>presentation.  Do read a couple of scientific articles on palaentology
>and try to pick up how this is done.
>
>You could start from those "rejection slips" you got.  Quite a few of
>them describe in some detail *why* the persons queried do not think
>that the specimen they have received are human/mammalian/animal
>remains.  You need to go into detail as to *why* that analysis is
>wrong.  And note, you will have to do this *per specimen*: even if
>*one* of your specimens is shown to actually be bone (which, as has
>been noted, is not impossible in itself), this will not mean that
>*all* of them are.
>
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Dear Dr. J��-Aro:
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I realize it's bitter cold in Stockholm right now, which sort of
explains why your brain cells seem to be frozen.

Do continue to wear your ear muffs, drink lots of anti-freeze
and kindly get back to me in the spring.
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Ed Conrad
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Man as Old as Coal