Tim Vaughan wrote:
> I thought up a way to either prove or disprove Dee's interesting theory of
> a native Apis spp. I was thinking about how in her neck of the woods
> researches recently settled the case of the unusual dietary allegations
> surounding the Anasazi Peoples by examining their coprolites. There must be
> reams of papers about the make up of skunk, bear, etc.. feces past and
> present,
Actually there is - Dr. Tom Vandevender(?) of the Univ. of Arizona is probably
the world's leading authority on fossilized packrat nests and the historical
climatology that they show. He's in the phone book (sorry I've forgotten the
exact spelling).
His studies cover thousands of years.
But what would be the point in bothering him if nobody would believe an
opposing opinion??
Dozens of researchers have already written thousands of papers on this subject.
Why doesn't somebody phone Steve Buchmann and ask him??
He is also in the Tucson phone book, and at
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