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"One would think", yeah, but my experiences changed my mind about that. What we think should happen doesn't matter, empirical evidence trumps theory every time: something out there manages to force a sort of mental stupor. You won't even know it 'til hours, maybe days after it ends. Most likely if you get a hint of it, you'll be so terrified of what happened that you'll go into denial. It's what people do. Yeah, go ahead and laugh if you want. Most folks do. Come back and talk to me afterwards. MIB

I almost laughed at the one scientist thinking that Neanderthals could not survive the arctic voyage between Siberia and Alaska. What voyage? They likely walked along the edge of the arctic ice field covering most of the Northern America. If not only the last ice age but possibly the one before that. They happen about every 65,000 years which neatly coincides with a 100,000 to 130,000 years ago date. . During ice ages, humans very existence was survival at the edge of such ice fields be it off the mountains in Europe or those in Asia. Where the Ice shield met the ocean was much milder than inland. Just compare the temperatures in Anchorage Alaska with Minneapolis in the winter. Minnesotans can go and warm up in Alaska. Not only were terrestrial animals pushed to the edge of the ice fields available as food, but seals and other aquatic animals were available as food sources from the ocean.

Anything that ends in ology is open to interpretation and revision. Ology does not mean "the science of...", it means "the study of..." Includes Anthropology.

Nice! My wife has a Grand Cherokee and I thought it was just a mall crawler, but we took it to WV to deploy cameras on some pretty iffy muddy forest service roads (I was worried because it was in the middle of nowhere) but it performed really well. That all-wheel-drive with the traction-control on all 4's works almost like having lockers. Jeep means it when they claim "trail rated".

And folks wonder why I discount paleoanthropology. It used to be 10,000 years ago. Then it moved to 15,000 years ago as they got with paleoclimatologists. But in South America, they found ruins and evidence that pushed it to 30,000 years ago - kicking and screaming the whole way. And I would draw criticism when I'd mention the Native Americans/American Indians had pushed off those before them. Now? A hundred thousand years ago? Next thing, the crappy "Out of Africa" narrative will be blown out of the water.

The SSR’s Ohio color data (1st column) with my NH/ME/eastern Canada color data (2nd column) Ohio NH/ME/Can (east) Total 141 Total 126 White/Grey/Yellow 18 (13%) 7 (5.5%)(Gray only) Black 21 (15%) 18 (14%) Brown 35 (25%) 10 (8%) Dark Brown 14 (10%) 7 (5.5%) “Dark” 19 (13%) 8 (6.5%) Cinnamon 3 ( 2%) 3 (2.5%) No color provided 31 (22%) 73 (58%)

Hi Bobby, Thought I’d read through this thread and see how data from New Hampshire, Maine, and eastern Canada (126 possible encounters reported) stacked up against some of the SSR stats. Of course, the SSR and my database use different things, so there are some “apples-to-oranges” comparisons here. I first looked at moon phase data. 32 encounters, or roughly 25% of the total, provided either a definite description of the moon phase or enough information to determine same. I’ve now divided up each lunar cycle into 10 periods three days in length (for those who need to visualize this, see a lunar calendar for October 2016, which started and ended on a new moon). These 32 encounters occurred: 3 - the night of the new moon, + 2 nights after the new moon 7 - waxing crescent moon (3-5 nights after the new moon) 2 - waxing gibbous moon (9-11 nights after the new moon) 4 - the last three days before the full moon 4 - the night of the full moon and two nights afterwards 3 - Nights 3-5 after the full moon 3 - Two nights before, and the night of, the quarter moon 4 - three nights after the waning quarter moon 2 - the last three nights before the next new moon. I did not realize this until just now, but fully 50% of encounters where the moon phase can be identified occurred on the darkest 12 nights of the lunar cycle. 42 encounters involved some type of vocalization; of these, 22 (or just over ½) involved an encounter where the witness heard something, but did not see anything. Of those 22 encounters, only 6 are from the fall; the easy majority (9) are from the summer months. However, 18 of 22, or 82%, are during dusk through dawn. Just going across the board for this area (not breaking it out seasonally), 36 (or 29%) of the encounters occurred when the witness was traveling (driving, walking, biking) in some way along a road. These encounters are split 50/50 between daylight hours and dusk-dawn. I’ll look at, and add, some more stats later.

#Sasquatch - Interesting to note that after establishing last year that all 9 reports in the database from AZ in the month of August from the last 10 years originate in Coconino County, we find that overall the County represents 40% of all AZ reports (15 total counties in the State) and is also the County that receives the most precipitation throughout the course of a year. Coconino County is home to both the Coconino National Forest and the Kaibab National Forest,in which we have reports recorded from both the North (which includes the Grand Canyon Forest Preserve) and Southern parts of the Kaibab. It should also be note that the Northern Part of the Kaibab National Forest also receives over 20 inches of rain per year on average, and over 100 inches of snow too. ----- #Sasquatch #Texas - Is there any love out there for Texas, and specifically a little pocket of Texas down near Houston that go by the names of Liberty, Polk, Tyler, Houston, Montgomery, San Jacinto and Walker Counties ? Combining these seven East Texas Counties, we have a total of 65 reports now locked and loaded in the database. Here's some numbers on them below. 17% of all reports come in hours of darkness. 68% of all reports come from nights where the moon is visible, with the Waxing Gibbous and Full Moon Phases making up 58% of those alone. Reports are pretty much spread well across the seasons but Spring leads the way making up 29% of all reports, with every single night report in Spring coming when the moon is visible. 60% of all reports are actual visual sightings. 55% of those reports come on nights when the moon is NOT visible, which includes all night sightings in the past 12 years.