From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Date: Sun, Nov 15, 1998, 9:23 PM To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: mail.class >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Jul 29 13:28:54 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: freshman seminar Content-Length: 327 Dear Dr. Wheeler: Your freshman seminar is filled with 15 eager students. But now Plan II has contacted me that they have a very bright student for whom they have no room in that program and would like to see him placed in a freshman seminar. His first choice is your course. Would you mind having 16 students instead of 15? >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Thu Aug 6 09:50:58 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: freshman seminars Content-Length: 1002 Dear Seminar Instructors: Your seminars are all set for the fall semester and I am working on a schedule for the 3rd hour activities. Thus far we have two confirmed dates for the special evening speakers: Dr. Ron Crutcher on September 29th, Coach Mack Brown on October 15th, and Coach Jody Conradt on October 27th. I will send you a complete list when all the speakers are confirmed. In the meantime, I would like to ask you to consider giving a noontime presentation on your seminar as one of the 3rd-hour activities. Last year those instructors who volunteered to do this were well received by the students and this enabled them to know something about the other seminars and instructors in the program. If noon on a week day is not convenient, then name a time. 4:00-5:00 p.m. might be a good hour for the students to come. We will greatly appreciate your volunteering for this aspect of the seminar program. If you have any questions, please call on me. Sincerely, Dave Oliphant, coordinator. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Fri Aug 14 15:45:04 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Content-Length: 2558 Dear Freshman Seminars Instructor: If you will be in class for two hours per week and will be having your seminar students attend the 3rd-hour activities, you will probably want to learn something about what kinds of information they will be receiving at the library workshops scheduled during the semester as one of the 3rd-hour activities. On August 24th (Monday) from 10-11 a.m. and on August 27th (Thursday) from 2-3 p.m. in PCL 1.124, Clara Fowler of the Undergraduate Library will give presentations to FS instructors on the workshops to be conducted for FS students. Clara will entertain suggestions for kinds of information that you would like to see included in the workshops. Even if you are not using the 3rd-hour approach, you may want to attend one of these two sessions in order to know what kind of library workshop will be available for our Freshman Seminars students. If you would like to attend such a presentation but cannot on one of these two dates, please let me know and we will try to arrange another time. Below you will find the monthly schedule of library workshops that have been set up specifically for the seminar students to choose from for their 3rd-hour credit: >9/3 3-4 >9/10 3-4 >9/14 10-11 >9/21 10-11 >9/24 3-4 >9/28 10-11 >10/1 3-4 >10/5 10-11 >10/12 10-11 >10/15 3-4 >10/19 10-11 >10/22 3-4 >10/26 10-11 >10/29 3-4 >11/2 10-11 >11/5 3-4 >11/12 3-4 >11/16 10-11 >11/19 3-4 >11/30 10-11 >12/3 3-4 Also, another 3rd-hour activity will be lectures based on FS courses, which will be given by the FS instructors, and evening lectures to be delivered by non-FS speakers: John Kroll--Tues. Sept. 15, noon, Battle Collection on 2nd floor of Ransom Center William Nethercut--Friday Oct. 2, noon, UTC 3.102 Margaret Berry--Mon. Oct. 5, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Norman Hackerman--Mon. Oct. 19, 3-4 p.m., in ECJ 1.202 Harriett Romo--Wed. Oct. 28, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Vickie Hampton--Thurs. Nov. 5, 4-5 p.m., Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Maria Wells--Mon. Nov. 16, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Coach Mack Brown--Thurs. September 3rd, 7 p.m., outside area east of fountain between Theatre Department and Ex-Students' Association (in case of rain, Batts Auditorium) Owen Temple--Thurs. September 10th, 7 p.m., Welch 3.502 Ron Crutcher--Tues. September 29th, 7:15 p.m., Music Building Recital Studio 2.608 and after 30 minutes to McCullough Opera Lab Theatre Susan Marshall--Wed. Oct. 7th, 7 p.m., Geology 100 Coach Jody Conradt--Tues. Oct. 20th, 7 p.m., Gregory Gym >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Mon Aug 17 07:49:02 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Content-Length: 2968 Dear Seminar Instructors: It has been suggested that I furnish you with the specific topic for each lecture. Here is the list of instructors and their topics: John Kroll will speak on Greek sculpture--Tues. Sept. 15, noon, Battle Collection on 2nd floor of Ransom Center William Nethercut will speak on the interpretation of significant works of literature, cinema, art history, and music--Friday Oct. 2, noon, UTC 3.102 Margaret Berry will speak on the history of UT student life--Mon. Oct. 5, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Norman Hackerman will speak on Science in the Interest of Society--Mon. Oct. 19, 3-4 p.m., in ECJ 1.202 Harriett Romo will speak on American race and ethnic relations--Wed. Oct. 28, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Vickie Hampton will speak on financial fitness for students--Thurs. Nov. 5, 4-5 p.m., Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Maria Wells will speak on Italian culture--Mon. Nov. 16, noon, Ransom Center 4th-floor auditorium Other instructors have volunteered and as soon as I can arrange for lecture rooms I will furnish the dates and topics for additional 3rd-hour talks. The evening lectures will be on the following topics: Coach Mack Brown on athletics and academics--September 3rd at 7:00 p.m. at fountain between Theatre Department and Ex-Students' Association; Owen Temple, a former freshman seminar student, will perform on guitar and sing his own music (he has just released a CD of his work)--September 10th at 7:00 in Welch 3.502; Dr. Ron Crutcher on concert music, which he will perform on cello with a University ensemble and guest composer--September 29th at 7:15 p.m. in Recital Studio in Music Bldg. 2.608 and afterwards in McCullough Opera Lab Theatre Dr. Susan Marshall on single-parent families, economics, and education--October 7th at 7:00 p.m. in Geology 100 Coach Jody Conradt on team work in athletics and life--October 20th at 7:00 p.m. in Gregory Gym Also, another 3rd-hour activity will be guided tours of the exhibit "Lithography: The Modern Art and Its Traditions" in the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (formerly the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery in the UT Art Building). This show includes works by such masters of the form as Honore Daumier, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, George Bellows, Diego Rivera, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein. These tours will be limited to 25 students per tour session, so please notify me as to which sessions your students wish to attend and I will keep track of the number of students and notify you when a session is filled. Below is the list of times for the guided tours from which your students should select a date that fits his or her own class schedule. Monday, September 21 11:00-12:00 Thursday, September 24 11:00-12:00 Monday September 28 12:00-1:00 Thursday October 1 12:00-1:00 Monday October 5 1:00-2:00 Thursday October 8 1:00-2:00 Monday October 12 10:00-11:00 Thursday October 15 10:00-11:00 >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Tue Aug 18 10:30:25 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: more 3rd-hour activities Content-Length: 915 Dear FS instructors: For those of you making plans ahead of time, I have four more noon lectures scheduled. Karrol Kitt on Deciding What is Important in One's Life and How to Take Action to Achieve It--Tuesday, Sept. 22nd in GSB 2.124 John Downing on British Television--Thursday, Sept. 24th in GSB 2.124 Carol MacKay on Autobiography in Women's Writing--Wednesday, November 18th in Ransom Center's 4th-floor auditorium Mary Steinhardt on An Overview of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People--Friday, Sept. 4th from 12:30-1:30 in Belmont 962 Also, we are scheduling a meeting of all seminar instructors on September 25th at 3 p.m. in Main 212. At that time we will furnish you with a printed, updated list of 3rd-hour activities. Please come for some comments by instructors who have already taught the freshman seminars and who will share their experiences and suggestions. Refreshments will be served. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Tue Aug 18 10:53:17 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: freshman seminars meeting Content-Length: 101 Pardon my confusion--the group meeting is scheduled for August 25th, the day before classes begin. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 19 09:49:05 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Content-Length: 413 Dear Freshman Seminars instructor: I thought that I would send once again the information about the meeting for all FS instructors, since I gave the wrong month in the first message. We will meet at 3 p.m. on August 25th in Main 212. This is the day before classes begin. Several veteran instructors of the FS Program will comment on their experience and refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Tue Aug 25 07:58:58 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: Freshman Seminars Content-Length: 1692 Dear FS instructor: Just a reminder that today, Tuesday the 25th, at 3 p.m. in Main 212, we will have a meeting of the Freshman Seminars faculty. I will distribute class rolls and printed information on the 3rd-hour activities. President Faulkner will address the group and a number of veteran instructors will share their experiences in teaching the freshman seminars. Refreshments will be served. Clara Fowler of the Undergraduate Library reports that four FS instructors attended the first of two presentations that she is giving to inform FS faculty as to the kinds of library workshops she will be offering to the freshmen as part of the 3rd-hour activities. Clara wrote as follows: "I presented the workshops that we will be teaching this semester and we had some good questions from the group. Instead of teaching the same session all semester, Beth and I discussed breaking up the semester into four topics. I gave out a handout of the list of topics and the dates they are being offered. I also suggested that the students may want to use our new Web-based Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) and gave out the current URL. I'd like to send a copy of the flyer I gave out at the session as well as information about TILT to every instructor teaching Freshman Seminars." I will furnish Clara with e-mail addresses for all FS instructors so that she can send out this information. Clara's next faculty information session is scheduled for August 27th (Thursday) from 2-3 in PCL 1.124. If you were unable to attend the first session and will not be able to attend the second but would like to attend at another time, please let me know and Clara will try to accommodate you. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 26 08:13:14 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: FS faculty meeting Content-Length: 3806 Dear FS instructors: The general faculty meeting for the Freshman Seminars program was held yesterday at 3 p.m. in Main 212 and was well attended--about two-thirds of the instructors were present to hear President Faulkner address the group and to hear from four veteran instructors of the program. Dr. Faulkner emphasized the important immediate and lasting impact of the freshman seminars. He spoke from his own experience with a similar program at the University of Illinois, observing that such seminars will color the students' entire careers at UT by engaging them from the first day of classes and influencing their attitudes in all their other courses right through to their graduation. Vice Provost Ricardo Romo, director of the FS program, introduced the President and the four veteran instructors: Wally Fowler of Aerospace Engineering and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers; Karrol Kitt of Human Ecology; Dee Silverthorn of Zoology; and Bob King of Linguistics. Karrol, Dee, and Bob all three received 5.0 student evaluations from their freshman seminars for fall 1997. Wally began by noting that the entering freshmen were born in 1980 and the implications of this fact. (Dr. Margaret Berry later pointed out that she retired from the University in 1980 but has returned the past three years to teach a freshman seminar.) To illustrate the implications of the students' birth year, Wally passed out a list of "always and nevers," among them: "They have always had cable. They have never owned a record Player (and thus the expression 'you sound like a broken record' means nothing to them). They have always had an answering machine, and now a pager or cellular phone. They never had a Polio shot, and likely, do not know what it is." Wally stressed the importance of giving the freshmen guidelines--his syllabus has grown from three to about fifteen pages. Karrol revealed that she has the students keep a journal, photographs the class from the first day, has them work together in groups, and keeps in touch by e-mail. Dee shared with the faculty her strategy for acquainting the freshmen with the campus: a scavenger hunt (which is being forwarded to you in another e-mail message) followed by a pizza party (modestly crediting this for her 5.0 rating). Dee also discussed the problem of plagiarism and the value of the Student Judicial Services Web page http://www.utexas.edu/depts/dos/sjs/academicintegrity.html, and the fact that attending a football game with its crowd impressed some of her students with being at the University and no longer in high school. Bob King agreed with all the suggestions and ideas offered by the other instructors, saying that he intended to use Wally's list of "always and nevers." He explained that he does not feel the seminars are intended to flunk out the students but to encourage and guide them, to help them have some fun while learning. He spoke of some successes and failures during the three previous years of teaching his Spies, Espionage, and Treason seminar and noted that he now gives the students more historical background because, as Wally had indicated, they don't remember much that happened before the Compact Disc was introduced when they were one year old. Dee Silverthorn's anecdote about her students attending a football game reminded me that last year the program allowed and encouraged attendance at one sports event as fulfillment of one of the 3rd-hour activities. The 3rd-hour activities will be placed on the freshman seminars Web page, which is under Administration, Executive Offices, Executive Vice-President and Provost, Teaching. Please let me know if there is any information that you are in need of at this time. And thanks to all those who attended and participated in the faculty meeting. >From wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Aug 26 14:18:38 1998 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: seminar Content-Length: 1380 > From fowler@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 12 15:03:27 1998 > Received: from mail.utexas.edu (mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.1]) by astro.as.utexas.edu (8.6.11/2.01) with SMTP id PAA17180 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:03:24 -0500 > Received: (qmail 22115 invoked by uid 0); 12 Aug 1998 20:03:23 -0000 > Received: from smf-demo4.facsmf.utexas.edu (HELO fac-224.lib.utexas.edu) (128.83.105.49) > by mail.utexas.edu with SMTP; 12 Aug 1998 20:03:23 -0000 > Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980812150521.007b9430@mail.utexas.edu> > X-Sender: fowler@mail.utexas.edu > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:05:21 -0500 > To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu > From: Clara Fowler > Subject: library classes scheduled for you Freshman Seminar > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Status: R > > Craig Wheeler, > > I wanted to confirm the library classes for your Freshman Seminar this > semester. They are scheduled for: > Thursday, Sept. 3 from 12:30-2 > Thursday, Sept. 17 from 12:30-2 > > Both classes will be held in FAC 224. If you have any questions before > then, don't hesitate to contact me. I look forward to meeting your > students. > > Sincerely, > Clara > > > Clara Fowler > Digital Information Literacy Office > FAC 224 > 495-4447 > fowler@mail.utexas.edu > >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Thu Aug 27 07:23:44 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: 3rd-hour activities on FS Web page Content-Length: 412 The 3rd-hour activities are now on the FS Web page--the address for which is below: http://www.utexas.edu/admin/evpp/teaching/freshman/fr.sem.98/index.html FS instructors are to keep track of attendance, either by having the students write a brief report or by having someone (the coordinator if he is present, the lecturer, the tour guide, the library workshop presenter, etc.) sign as proof of attendance. >From Gurgi9@aol.com Thu Aug 27 20:27:47 1998 To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Tim from Freshman Seminar Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2220 Well, I already went ahead and did some research on the archeoastronomy, sending some emails to some very impressive people, including the President of the Society of Africanist Archeologists, hoping that they could point us in some good directions. That is not the reason that I wanted to email you though. I noted that you are a theoretical astrophysicist. Exactly what degrees do you need to get there? What exactly does a job like that entail? See, I have a dilemna. I have a basic idea of what I would like to do with my life, but it really doesn't fit into any category. You really caught my eye because you are formally a theoetical astrophysicist but also seem to have some interest in history, via your Freshman Seminar, and in writing (The Krone Exp.). I have always enjoyed reading those big books on modern physics theory like superstring, etc. That stuff always seemed so removed from our everyday actions as human beings. It seems to be delving into the very heart of reality, trying to make it all somehow make sense by doing such fantastic things as explaining everything in higher dimesnions, etc. That has always fascinated me. But what fascinates me about it is what it tries to do: explain reality, why things are the way they are. This is my ultimate calling, to work on this question. Unfortunately, such a question also involves many metaphysical questions necessary to explore so that I do not leave any area blank. Sloppy research is not a good thing. Therefore I have also spent a great deal of my time studying things like philosophy and theological texts. My basic problem is that such a lifelong goal fails to fall into any predefined area. There is no college for my interest. My interest falls under at least two!!! I am lost as to what I should be studying: astronomy, physics, philosophy, history. I am looking for someone to guide me in any way. If you know someone who might better help me than please give me his/her email address. I prefer emailing because in person I wouldnt say 10% of this stuff. You understand I hope. I am really excited by this class because it is so boundless and free for self-initiative. thank you for your time, Timothy Shockey >From wheel Fri Aug 28 11:37:30 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Tim from Freshman Seminar Content-Length: 939 Timothy, To become an astrononomer, you basically need to be a physicist. You can major in phyics as an undergraduate and then switch to astronomy in grad school or you can be an undergraduate astronomy major who will, nevertheless, take mostly physics courses. I am not against metaphysics. All of us who are in the hard sciences ponder the more intriguing harder to quantify issues. There is an asymmetry here, however. If you concentrate on the "metaphysics" philosophy, theology, etc, you will never get the firm quantitative background to carry you quest to "understand" into the realm of physicists. On the other hand, as a highly trained physicist, you can read and study those other areas. You might want to talk to my colleague, John Scalo (parrot@astro.as.utexas) who has one of the most eclectic views of anyone I know. He is a superb astronomer/physicist, but also a musician and a deep thinker on many levels. Craig >From mmdoc@mail.utexas.edu Sat Aug 29 11:10:44 1998 To: Subject: FS 301 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_01BDD33E.079E7460" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 1623 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BDD33E.079E7460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I'm sorry to inform you, but due to time constrainsts I was forced to = drop your class. Plus I know that the man from CA wanted to be in the = class so now there is a spot for him. I will probably have you as a = professor later on because I'm an aerospace major, so I hope to see you = in the furture. Again I'm sorry, but I really had to drop your class. Miranda Murdock >From wheel Sat Aug 29 12:18:27 1998 To: mmdoc@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: FS 301 Content-Length: 177 Miranda, I'm sorry your schedule did not fit with the class, but I really appreciate your quick notice. I will tell the fellow from California there is a hole for him. Craig >From wheel Sat Aug 29 12:23:24 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: freshman seminar Content-Length: 224 Jamin, One of our students had to drop the freshman seminar due to course constraints, so that opens a spot for you. You should try to register ASAP and let me know if there is any problem. Welcome aboard, Craig Wheeler >From wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Sat Aug 29 12:27:56 1998 To: rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Freshman Seminars Cc: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Content-Length: 307 Dear Robert, I'm teaching the Freshman Seminar on Ancient Astronomy in Africa. At the goup meeting on Tuesday, you mentioned some web sites that discussed how to judge the truth of websites (an interesting possibility for recursion here...). Could you send me the URLs of those? Thanks, Craig Wheeler >From wheel Sat Aug 29 12:43:59 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, annebw@mail.utexas.edu, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, luke@the-innerloop.com, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: test Content-Length: 67 hi, this is a test of email addresses to see which bounce. Craig >From rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu Sat Aug 29 13:11:39 1998 X-Sender: rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: Freshman Seminars Content-Length: 697 >I'm teaching the Freshman Seminar on Ancient Astronomy in Africa. >At the goup meeting on Tuesday, you mentioned some web sites that >discussed how to judge the truth of websites (an interesting >possibility for recursion here...). Could you send me the URLs >of those? craig: i didn't have as many bookmarked as i thought. but this first one has links to others. http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hott.html also, this site may be of interest. http://www.w3.org/ best, bob jensen ------------------------- Robert Jensen Department of Journalism University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu office: (512) 471-1990 fax: (512) 471-7979 ------------------------- >From AcadianYak@aol.com Sat Aug 29 14:59:12 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: test Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 91 Wow, Professor. You scared me! I thought we were going to have a test already. -mikhail >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Tue Sep 1 08:43:38 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Astronomy in Ancient Africa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 257 Hi, I'm in your astronomy in Ancient Africa class, and I need you to change the email adress you have for me to this one. I have been having some unforseen problems with my other email adress, and I can't send mail from it. Thank you Sincerely Luke Bowman >From AcadianYak@aol.com Wed Sep 2 16:40:57 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Adler Planetarium Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 307 Professor Wheeler, do you mind if I interview you at sme point this semester about your research? I'm taking Ast 104 and we're required to interview a faculty member or research specialist. I believe you stated that your research cetered around blackholes, and I'd love to know more about them. -mikhail >From marykay@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Sep 2 08:59:59 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Adler Planetarium Content-Length: 83 home page: http://astro.uchicago.edu/adler/... look for "Under African Skies".. >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 26 08:44:23 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: Freshman Seminars Web Page address Content-Length: 68 http://www.utexas.edu/admin/evpp/teaching/freshman/des.index.html >From AcadianYak@aol.com Tue Sep 8 18:29:47 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Found some stuff... Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1206 I realized something in class today. In the excert from the book you gave us, Nomoratunga was spelled NAmoratunga. I researched that and found these sites... http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/sed/ARIES/Mod1over.html this talks about a site called Namoratunga II in northeastern Kenya that the author believes was used to tell time. http://www.afronet.com/COLUMN/ARCHIVES/071897cinque.html this site is on the AFRONET -- whatever that is. It brags that black people built this structure, and they spell it differently. Also side note-- they again state that Namoratunge is in Kenya. Am I looking at the wrong one? http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/amu_chma_03.html http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/amu_chma_09.html http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/amu_chma_10.html http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/amu_chma_19.html this is a newsletter from africa about mathematics. I didn't find anything on Namoratunga, but I was kind in a hurry :) http://www.black-collegian.com/science.html this touches on the Dogon and Namoratunga. Interesting stuff. I think that if someone uses this spellig with a lot of other search engines (this was produced with Excite) that we could find a lot more. -Mikhail Zezulka >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Wed Sep 9 10:22:35 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Namoratunga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 974 I think i found the compilation book from the Oxford Conference. It is Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s Edited by Clive L.N. Ruggles Group D Publications, Loughborough, 1993 The guys name who presented was Clive Ruggles and he actually presented on the Borana Calendar maybe this is something else we should be researching. I found this on a lecture description on a british university site http://indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/~rug/ar315/info/lec7.html Here's another article by the guys who discovered Namoratunga. They are archaeologists at the University of Michigan apparently. Lynch, B.M., and Robbins, L.H.; "Namoratunga: The First Archaeoastronomical Evidence in Sub-Saharan Africa," Science, 200:766, 1978 Also we might check out: Science Frontiers #4 from July 1978 This guy may be an expert on Namoratunga? Lawrence H. Robbins Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A. that's all i could find this morning -Luke Bowman >From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Wed Sep 9 15:33:45 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: internet stuff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0054_01BDDC08.155234C0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 3452 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0054_01BDDC08.155234C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think we need to be able to read French and Portuguese to get the good = stuff. :) I found some sites you might want to look at: www.malinet.ml/mali/pages/sigui.htm (it's in French, by the way) - it's about the Dogon people in Mali...it mentions their star dance I = think...but I can't read much French. www.golden.net/~bhap/html/secret.htm=20 - more for fun than for research www.afrinet.net/~hallh/afrotalk/afrodec94/1066.html - a discussion about african science. I've emailed some of the people = involved; hopefully I will get a response. I also found that two french scientists, Marcel Griaule and Germaine = Dieterlen, spent some 25 years with the Dogon. I haven't found much on = them, but Griaule has supposedly written two books about their = astronomical knowledge: The Pale Fox Conversations with Ogatameteli (or I've seen it spelled = Ogotomalli). Those would be nice to find. Jason Clendenen >From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Thu Sep 17 02:28:19 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Fresh News in Africa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 174 Dr. Wheeler, The address to the daily news in Africa page is: http://www.africanews.org/ It has links for news in the country of your choice; seems real helpful. Jamin >From wheel Thu Sep 17 11:03:19 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: africa site Content-Length: 458 Jamin reports that this site has good current event coverage. Craig > From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Thu Sep 17 02:28:19 1998 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Craig Wheeler > Subject: Fresh News in Africa > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Dr. Wheeler, > > The address to the daily news in Africa page is: > > http://www.africanews.org/ > > It has links for news in the country of your choice; seems real helpful. > > Jamin > > >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Mon Sep 14 20:11:23 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Fernbank Planetarium Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 141 I got the script from that planetarium show on africa it provides a good overview of the whole topic i'll bring it to class tommorrow -luke >From wheel Wed Sep 2 11:57:40 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, annebw@mail.utexas.edu, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Adler Planetarium Content-Length: 238 > From marykay@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Sep 2 08:59:59 1998 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu > Subject: Adler Planetarium > > home page: http://astro.uchicago.edu/adler/... look for "Under African > Skies".. > > > >From wheel Wed Sep 2 21:22:27 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Adler Planetarium Content-Length: 542 Mikhail, Sure. That is, I don't mind. Craig > From AcadianYak@aol.com Wed Sep 2 16:40:57 1998 > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Subject: Re: Adler Planetarium > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Professor Wheeler, do you mind if I interview you at sme point this semester > about your research? I'm taking Ast 104 and we're required to interview a > faculty member or research specialist. I believe you stated that your > research cetered around blackholes, and I'd love to know more about them. > > -mikhail > >From Mailer-Daemon@epub.med.iacnet.com Thu Sep 3 13:41:20 1998 Subject: Ancient Egyptian Science, vol. 2: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy.... To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 8147 ____________________________________________________________________________ Database: Expanded Academic ASAP Sent from SearchBank. Library: University of Texas at Austin ____________________________________________________________________________ Source: The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Jan-March 1998 v118 n1 p75(2). Title: Ancient Egyptian Science, vol. 2: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy._(book reviews) Author: Leo Depuydt Subjects: Books - Reviews People: Clagett, Marshall Rev Grade: B Electronic Collection: A20914004 RN: A20914004 Full Text COPYRIGHT 1998 American Oriental Society By MARSHALL CLAGETT. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 214. Philadelphia: AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1995. Pp. xv + 575; many illustrations. $50. This hefty tome is volume two of a three-volume sourcebook on ancient Egyptian scientific thought. The author, who is Emeritus at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, explains in the preface to volume one that he thought of this work when involved in the publication of sourcebooks in the history of science. The preface and the table of contents (pp. vii-xiv) are followed by a general survey on calendars, clocks, and astronomy (pp. 1-129), with endnotes (pp. 131-65). In part two (pp. 167-506), eighteen documents are presented in English translation, each carefully annotated: (1) Old and Middle Kingdom feast lists; (2) the Ebers Calendar; (3) the astronomical ceiling of Senmut's tomb; (4) the ceiling of Hall K in Seti I's tomb; (5) extracts from the calendar at Medinet Habu; (6) lists of the names of the thirty lunar days; [documents (7), the lengths of day and night in Cairo Papyrus no. 86637, and (8), a similar table from Tanis, are discussed in the general survey;] (9) Papyrus Carlsberg 9; (10) Sothic dates, i.e., Egyptian dates of the heliacal rising of Sirius (Greek Sothis); (11) the decanal clock on Meshet's coffin; (12) the Book of Nut; (13) the dramatic text in Seti I's cenotaph; (14) the Ramesside star clock; (15) Amenemhet's water clock; (16) the shadow clock in Seti I's cenotaph; (17) the zodiacs in the temples at Esna and Dendera; and (18) the statue of the astronomer Harkhebi. A postscript (pp. 497506) contains a communication by James O. Mills on a petroglyph from Hierakonpolis with possible astronomical purport. Part three (pp. 507-66) encompasses an extensive bibliography (through 1990) and indexes. Part four includes over one hundred illustrations of various sources. The author gives an account of past discussions that is sensitive to the periods in which they were first formulated. Thus, he recounts the scholarship on the Ebers Calendar, which first came to light in 1862, with unmatched attention to detail. Clagett's work may be recommended as a very reliable and useful companion. My work on a monograph entitled Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt has allowed me to judge it first-hand. Two notes pertaining to documents (9) and (10) are appended here. As regards (9), the structure of the twenty-five-year cycle in Carlsberg 9 needs to be reinterpreted (Depuydt, in In Memoriam Jan Quaegebeur [in press]). This reinterpretation has a domino-effect, since the cycle has played a role in other topics of calendrics, notably the use of the Macedonian calendar in Egypt. As regards (10), the author makes an original contribution to the interpretation of a rising of Sirius noted in an inscription from Assuan dating to Ptolemy IV (pp. 331-33 and [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE III.1 OMITTED]). He interprets "730 years, 3 months, 3 days, and 3 hours," a time interval mentioned in connection with the rising, as an indirect reference to the Sothic cycle and the only such reference to the cycle in hieroglyphic sources. The cycle is the period of about 1460 years in which the rising rotates through the entire Egyptian civil year. Two intervals need to be distinguished: (I) the months and days that the rising shifts in the civil year; (II) the years that must pass for the rising to shift interval (I). The author interprets "730 years, 3 months, 3 days, and 3 hours" as a mixture of (I) and (II). "730 years," as an instance of (II), describes half a Sothic Cycle. The corresponding interval (I) is 182 1/2 days (730 + 4): it takes 730 years for the rising to shift 182 1/2 days. "3 months (90 days), 3 days, and 3 hours (1/8 day)" are instances of (I). The corresponding times (II) are 360 years (90 x 4), 12 years (3 x 4), and 1/2 year (1/8 x 4), for a total of 372 1/2 years. The total of (I) in "(II) 730 years, (I) 3 months, (I) 3 days, and (I) 3 hours" is 276 days; the total of (II), 1102 1/2 days. Traditional Egyptian chronology assumes that, around 1320 B.C.E., the rising of Sirius fell on I ??ht 1. The Assuan inscription would therefore date to about 218 B.C.E. (1320-1102 1/2), which falls in the reign of Ptolemy IV (221-205 B.C.E.), and Sirius would have risen 276 days after I ??ht 1, on Day 7 of Month 10, or II smw 7. Thus, both a mention of the Sothic cycle and a Sothic date can be inferred. This interpretation could also be an argument in favor of the consistency of the Egyptian wandering year (Depuydt, "On the Consistency of the Wandering Year as Backbone of Egyptian Chronology," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 32 [1995]: 50). The text dated to Ptolemy IV supports the view that the Egyptian year had wandered consistently. Still in connection with the Sothic rising, it may be useful to note three mentions of the rising that have come to light since the source book was completed. Two of them, referred to here as (A) and (B), found at Karnak, probably date to Amenhotep I (late sixteenth century B.C.E.) (see A. J. Spalinger, Three Studies on Egyptian Feasts and Their Chronological Implications [Baltimore: Halgo, Inc., 1992], 15, 19, with plates II and III). The third, (C), is found in an inscription recently excavated at Buto and dating to Thutmosis III (fifteenth century B.C.E.) (see S. Bedier, "Ein Stiftungsdekret Thutmosis' III. aus Buto," in Aspekte spatagyptischer Kultur: Festschrift fur Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. M. Minas and J. Zeidler [Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1994], 35-50, with plate 6). Since no year, month, and day dates are given, these mentions of the rising are not Sothic dates. They belong in a festal calendar of which each line refers to a civil or lunar feast. (A) is mentioned between I prt 3 in the preceding line and I prt 20 in the next, (B) between IV prt and I smw, and (C) between I smw 4 and I smw 30. At face value, (A) and (B) contradict the contemporary Sothic date of III smw 9 in Year 9 of Amenhotep I in the Ebers Calendar, on which traditional New Kingdom chronology is based; (A) and (B) even contradict one another. Moreover, (C) contradicts the Sothic date of III smw 28 of an unknown year of Thutmosis III (cf. Depuydt, "Consistency," 50). All this is potentially upsetting to Egyptian chronology. But then, the feast of the rising does not fall on a fixed date and had to be mentioned somewhere. (A), (B), and (C) are entries in festal calendars, not reports of sightings of the rising. In each instance, the rising is said to fall r hrw.s or r sw.s "on its day." The rising may have been inserted somewhat randomly in the list and mentioned ahead of time so that one could look out for it. Spalinger (Three Studies) considers the possibility that (A) and (B) were copied from inscriptions dated to a time when the rising did fall in the intervals inferred. LEO DEPUYDT BROWN UNIVERSITY -- End -- >From Mailer-Daemon@epub.med.iacnet.com Thu Sep 3 13:41:21 1998 Subject: Ancient astronomers.(the Nabta site of stone circles in Egypt seems... To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1986 ____________________________________________________________________________ Database: Expanded Academic ASAP Sent from SearchBank. Library: University of Texas at Austin ____________________________________________________________________________ Full content for this article includes photograph and illustration. Source: U.S. News & World Report, April 13, 1998 v124 n14 p14(1). Title: Ancient astronomers.(the Nabta site of stone circles in Egypt seems related to astronomy and predates Stonehenge by a thousand years)(Brief Article) Author: Laura Tangley Subjects: Astronomy, Ancient - Egypt Magazine Collection: 93M0361 Business Collection: 108T1618 Electronic Collection: A20474129 RN: A20474129 Full Text COPYRIGHT 1998 U.S. News and World Report Inc. A thousand years before England's Stonehenge, cattle herders in Egypt built a complex of stone slabs that researchers say may be the first monument based on knowledge of astronomy. Known as Nabta, the site includes a stone circle and five lines of standing and toppled megaliths. Satellite surveys--reported last week in Nature--show that some of these stones are aligned north-south, east-west, or pointing to the summer-solstice sun as it appeared 6,000 years ago. When climate change eventually forced Nabta's builders to move on, they likely headed south, fueling the birth of an advanced Egyptian society a few hundred years later. -- End -- >From Mailer-Daemon@epub.med.iacnet.com Thu Sep 3 13:41:20 1998 Subject: A Stonehenge of sorts lies in the Sahara. (J. McKim Malville and ot... To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1202 ____________________________________________________________________________ Database: Expanded Academic ASAP Sent from SearchBank. Library: University of Texas at Austin ____________________________________________________________________________ Source: The New York Times, April 2, 1998 v147 pA5(N) pA5(L) col 1 (13 col in). Title: A Stonehenge of sorts lies in the Sahara. (J. McKim Malville and others discover complex of slabs and stones in southern Egypt which could be astronomical monument) (International Pages) Subjects: Egypt - Historic sites Sahara - Historic sites Monuments - Discovery, exploration, etc. Astronomy, Ancient - Usage RN: A20452784 -- End -- >From wheel Sat Sep 5 11:13:00 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, annebw@mail.utexas.edu, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Seminar Web page Content-Length: 254 > From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Wed Aug 26 08:44:23 1998 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu > Subject: Freshman Seminars Web Page address > > http://www.utexas.edu/admin/evpp/teaching/freshman/des.index.html > > > >From wheel Tue Sep 8 18:05:58 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, annebw@mail.utexas.edu, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: class Content-Length: 131 Just a reminder that we will meet in the regular class room on Thursday. The next WEB session will be a week from Thursday. Craig >From wheel Wed Sep 9 11:30:36 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, cthulhu@mail.utexas.edu, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: starting to cook, Content-Length: 1282 the correct spelling REALLY helps! > From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Wed Sep 9 10:22:35 1998 > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Craig Wheeler > Subject: Namoratunga > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I think i found the compilation book from the Oxford Conference. It is > > Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s > Edited by Clive L.N. Ruggles > Group D Publications, Loughborough, 1993 > > The guys name who presented was Clive Ruggles and he actually presented on the > Borana Calendar maybe this is something else we should be researching. > > I found this on a lecture description on a british university site > http://indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/~rug/ar315/info/lec7.html > > Here's another article by the guys who discovered Namoratunga. They are > archaeologists at the University of Michigan apparently. > Lynch, B.M., and Robbins, L.H.; "Namoratunga: The First Archaeoastronomical Evidence > in Sub-Saharan Africa," > Science, 200:766, 1978 > > Also we might check out: Science Frontiers #4 from July 1978 > > This guy may be an expert on Namoratunga? > Lawrence H. Robbins > Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, > U.S.A. > that's all i could find this morning > > -Luke Bowman > > > > > >From fowler@mail.utexas.edu Wed Sep 16 15:05:20 1998 X-Sender: fowler@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Freshman Seminar library workshop tomorrow Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 789 Craig, We are scheduled to meet tomorrow in FAC 227 from 12:30 - 2pm for your Freshman Seminar Library Workshop. I was planning on showing your students the INSPEC database which cites a number of good articles about astroarchaeology - some even in Africa! I will also show some tips and techniques for using a search engine to find Web pages about the topic. I will check out some of our anthropology related databases today to see if they have enough information to make them worth showing to your class. Is there anything else you would like me to cover tomorrow? Are there any other topics that have come up in class in the last few weeks that might be good to search tomorrow? Thanks and I'll see you tomorrow, Clara Clara Fowler fowler@mail.utexas.edu 495-4447 FAC 227 >From wheel Tue Sep 22 13:54:39 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: star charts Content-Length: 165 That was a lower case "l" in lkmao. Here is a somewhat more general address for the star charts http://www.unf.edu/~lkmao/astronomy/skies/star-charts.html Craig >From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Tue Sep 22 14:10:02 1998 To: "J. C. Wheeler" Subject: Absence MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_01BDE633.21FD2240" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 3608 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BDE633.21FD2240 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Professor Wheeler, I'm sorry that I was unable to make it to class today. I'm = feeling rather ill and tired today after vomitting half the night = yesterday. I took the day recovering from dehydration and what I think = was food poisoning. But anyways, the point of this email was to ask you = if you could possibly inform me about what I missed during today's = class. This way, I can come prepared on Thursday to class without = actually being behind the rest of my classmates. Thank you. = Sincerely, = John Mao >From wheel Tue Sep 22 14:56:39 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Absence Content-Length: 803 John, sorry you are not feeling well. I had something like that in the first week of class and it is not fun! I took suggestions and assigned countries to write about for the mid-term term paper. We are going to have an outline due on Tuesday, Oct 6 and a rough draft for peer comment on Oct 13. I will be out of town next week, so you are on your own to work on the term paper and do third hour activities. Today we talked about Clive Ruggles' discussion of the Borana Calendar and how to reconcile various accounts. On Thursday, we'll discuss the original Lynch and Robbins paper. What country would you like to write about. These were taken: Mali, Chad, Tanzania, Liberia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Republic of Congo and Kenya. Lots of good choices left! Craig >From wheel Tue Sep 22 14:59:50 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: term paper Content-Length: 236 Mikhail, we picked countries to write about today in class. These got chosen: Mali, Chad, Tanzania, Liberia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Republic of Congo and Kenya. Plenty left, what would you like? Craig >From AcadianYak@aol.com Tue Sep 22 15:33:56 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: term paper Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 112 Sorry about class today Professor. I guess I'll take Madagascar. Islands are always interesting. :) -mikhail >From wheel Mon Sep 21 21:22:11 1998 To: wheel Subject: maps Content-Length: 68 http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/africa.html >From Gurgi9@aol.com Fri Sep 25 01:48:19 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: reminder Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 177 Hello Prof. Wheeler, this is Timothy. I am very sorry that i missed class thursday. did i miss anything new? have fun in Italy! keep your eyes open for Lamborghinis!! -Tim >From wheel Fri Sep 25 23:03:04 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: special 3rd hour Content-Length: 928 On Monday, Sept 28 at 3 PM in RLM 15.216B there will be a special lecture by Dr. Michael Coe entitled "A Touch of Venus - Maya Style." Coe has recently retired as Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale. He is the author of many books on the Maya and Mesoamerica. My colleague, Bob Robbins who is hosting this event told me today that he thinks some people in the anthropology department at Rice have done recent work on African astronomy or megaliths or some related thing. You might try to explore that lead to talk about when I return. For your Moon journals, keep a close eye on the lovely crescent Moon for the next little while. It is one thing to know intellectually that the moon is sphere illuminated partially on one side by the Sun. It is rather another thing to "see" that. Try to look at the Moon until you can see what is really going on. Arrivederci, Craig >From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Oct 5 00:12:48 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: freshman seminar Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 213 I was wondering what the URL of the class web page is? also, when are the outlines due of our Africa papers? thanks for your time, -Tim P.S. Did you see any Lamborghinis? It really is a serious question. bye >From m902856@hotmail.com Mon Oct 5 11:33:35 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.145] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Africa Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 24621 >>Return-Path: >>Delivered-To: maryrose@mail.utexas.edu >>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:36:37 +0200 >>From: David Laney >>To: maryrose@mail.utexas.edu >>Subject: Africa >> >> >>Some of the most useful articles are by Keith Snedegar (Utah Valley >>State College), who summarizes what can be found scattered through >>older literature. His e-mail address is snedegke@uvsc.edu. A short >>article appeared in ``Mercury'' (Nov-Dec 1997 issue, p.12). There >>is a longer, more detailed article in ``Vistas in Astronomy'', Vol. 39, >>p.529 (1995). There is another long article summarizing the earlier >>literature which was written by Brian Warner, but I haven't yet been >>able to trace the reference. Both this and Snedegar's contain lists >>of references, but whether you will be able to locate these in Austin >>I'm not too sure. Just for fun I'm including two versions of a short >>summary of star lore traditions that I collected from the resources >>in our library. >> >> >>Legends of the Khoikhoi and the San: >> >>A girl child of the old people had magical powers so strong that when >>she looked at a group of fierce lions, they were immediately turned to >>stars. The largest are now in Orion's belt. >> >> >>A strong-willed girl became so angry when her mother would not give her >>any of a delicious roasted root that she grabbed the roasting roots from >>the fire and threw the roots and ashes into the sky, where the red >>and white roots >>now glow as red and white stars, and the ashes are the Milky Way. >> >>Dornan, 1925 >>(The Bushmen) >> >>And there the road is to this day. Some people call it the Milky Way; >>some call it the Stars' Road, but no matter what you call it, it is the >>path made by a young girl many, many years ago, who threw the bright >>sparks of her fire high up into the sky to make a road in the darkness. >> >>Leslau, Charlotte and Wolf. African Folk Tales (1963) >> >>When the Pleiades appear in the east, little ones are lifted by their >>mothers and presented to the stars . . . The Pleiades are considered >>friendly and the children are taught to stretch their hands toward them. >> >>The Pleiades, named Khuseti or Khunuseh by the Khoikhoi, are called the >>rainstars. Their appearance indicates the rainy season is near and thus >>the beginning of a new year. (Hahn, 1881, The Khoikhoi, or Bushmen) >> >>. . . when rain is accompanied by lightning, girls who are out in the open >>become killed by the lightning and are converted into stars. Therefore >>young unmarried women and girls must hide themselves from the rain. >>(Schapera 1930) >> >>According to the Namaquas, the Pleiades were the daughters of the sky >>god. When their husband (Aldeberan) shot his arrow (Orion's sword) at three >>zebras (Orion's belt), it fell short. He dared not return home because >>he had killed no game, and he dared not retrieve his arrow because >>of the fierce lion (Betelgueuse) which sat watching the zebras. There >>he sits still, shivering in the cold night and suffering thirst and >>hunger. >> >>Initiated men among the Namaqua could not partake of hare's flesh. >>Long ago the moon sent a message to men that as it died and was renewed, >>so should men be. The hare told men instead they would die >>and perish like the hare, but said nothing of renewal. >>(Tooke 1888, The Hottentots) >> >>The Sun was once a man who made it day when he raised his arms, for >>a powerful light shone from his armpits. But as he grew old and slept >>too long, the people grew cold. Children crept up on him, and >>threw him into the sky, where he became round and has stayed warm >>and bright ever since. >> >>The Sotho calendar: >> >>Canopus was called Naka(the horn), or E a dishwa >>(it is carefully watched). Sotho >>men would camp in the mountains, where they made fires >>and watched the early morning skies in the South. It was believed that >>the first person to see the star would be very prosperous that year, >>with a rich harvest and good luck to the end of his life. In olden times >>the chief would give the lucky man with a heifer. The day after Naka >>was sighted was the time for the men with divining bones to examine >>their bones in still water, to predict the tribe's luck for the coming >>year. Among the Venda, the first person to see Nanga (Canopus) in the >>morning sky announced his discovery by climbing a hill and blowing >>a sable antelope horn (phalaphala). Among the Mapeli, the first person >>to see the star would begin ululating loudly enough to be heard in >>the next village, which would then join the noisemaking to warn other >>villages, each in turn until all knew Canopus had been seen. >> >>When selomela (the Pleiades) rose in the east, frost was at hand and >>the leaves fell from the trees in the river beds. >> >> >>If the senakane (the little horn) (Achernar) rises in the East very bright >>and giving off little lightnings, and the bullrushes are still in flower, >>men fear an early frost. If Canopus is seen in May with a very intense >>light, the frost would be very hard. >> >>The shield of the little horn is the Small Magellanic Cloud, known as >>mo'hora le tlala, `plenty and famine'. If dry dusty air made it appear >>dim, famine was to be expected. >> >>The bright stars of the pointers and the southern cross were often seen >>as giraffes, though different tribes had different ideas about which were >>male and which were female. Among the Venda the giraffes were known as >>Thutlwa, `rising above the trees', and in October the giraffes would >>indeed skim above the trees on the evening horizon, reminding people to >>finish planting. >> >>Tswana: >> >>The sky is stone, and the earth is flat. Water is beneath the earth and >>above the sky. >> >>Some believed that after sunset the sun traveled back to the east over the >>top of the sky, and that the stars are small holes which let the light >>through. Others said that the sun is eaten each night by a crocodile, and >>that it emerges from the crocodile each morning. >> >>The waning moon spills diseases. >> >>Its markings are a woman carrying a child, who was caught gathering wood >>when she should have been at a sacred festival. >> >>For the Tswana, the stars of Orion's sword were `dintsa le Dikolobe', three >>dogs chasing the three pigs of Orion's belt. Warthogs have their litters >>while Orion is prominent in the sky --- frequently litters of three. >> >>Ntshune was a star (possibly Fomalhaut) visible on winter mornings. >>This `kiss me' star showed the time for lovers to part before parents >>found them. >> >>The small constellation of Delphinus may have been seen by the Tswana as >>a mopane worm. >> >> >>Sotho,Swazi,Nguni >> >>The sun's `summer house' and `winter house' (the solstices) were >>important to the traditional calendar as in many other parts of the world. >>To the Xhosa these were `injikolanga', `the turning back of the sun'. >>As late as 1921, governors of royal >>Swazi villages trusted traditional observations more than printed calendars. >> >>Venus: iCelankobe (Zulu) = `asking for mealies'. As with the Sotho >>Se-falabogogo (`crust scrapings'), the idea is that someone who arrives >>for supper by the light of the evening star will do rather badly. The >>Tswana believed that if Venus were in the evening sky at hoeing season, >>there would be a good harvest. >> >>According to Credo Mutwa, the Southern Cross is the Tree of Life, `our >>holiest constellation'. >> >>IsiLimela or the Pleiades were the `digging stars', whose appearance >>in southern Africa warned of the coming need to begin hoeing the ground. >>All over Africa, these stars were used as a marker of the growing season. >>`And we say isiLimela is renewed, and the year is renewed, and so we begin >>to dig'. (Callaway 1970). Xhosa men counted their years of manhood from the >>time in June when isiLimela first became visible. >> >>To Xhosas, the Milky Way seemed like the raised bristles on the back >>of an angry dog. Sotho and Tswana saw it as Molalatladi, the place where >>lightning rests. It also kept the sky from collapsing, and showed the >>movement of time. Some said it turned the Sun to the east. >> >>For Swazi and Zulu skywatchers, iNqonqoli or Ingongoni was a star >>associated with wildebeest, whose calves were born in the season when >>Spica rose before the sun and the morning star. >> >>Canopus was known to some tribes as the `ants' egg star' because of its >>prominence during the season when the eggs were abundant. >> >>Assorted: >>Among the Baronga each moon is regarded as a new birth after the death >>of the old one. At the appearance of the new moon, recently born children >>(third month) are `shown their moon'. The mother flings a burning stick >>toward the moon as the grandmother tosses the child in the air, crying >>`This is your moon'.The baby is then made to roll over in the ashes. >>Children lacking this rite would grow up stupid, and dull children are >>told, `You have not been shown your moon'. >> >>More Moon Legends >> >>See Hare and the Moon above under Khoisan stories, and the moon and >>stupidity in the above paragraph. >> >>Nwedzana=waxing crescent >>If the horns point up when the new crescent is sighted in the evening >>sky, it `was said to be holding up all kinds of disease, and when the >>horns were tipped down, the moon was a basin pouring illness over the >>world.' (Sotho,Tswana,Venda) >> >>`No doubt Shaka's harem guards were called the Qwayi-Nyanga, or moon- >>gazers, because they were to watch over the royal women as intently as the >>Zulu people watched the moon.' Ng'olumhlope namhla (Zulu) was the black >>or dark day after the waning crescent's disappearance from the sky. Many >>considered this a solemn day of rest, when no work or business should >>take place, and no weddings should be celebrated. >> >>`In Malawi the morning star is Chechichani, a poor housekeeper who allows >>her husband the moon to go hungry and starve; Puikani, the evening star, >>is a fine wife who feeds the moon thus bringing him back to life.' >> >>On March 30, 1885 an Ndebele impi which had just set out on campaign saw the >>moon turn red in a total eclipse, decided the army had been bewitched, >>and returned to Bulawayo. >> >>Many Africans saw the markings on the moon as a man or woman carrying a >>bundle of sticks. >> >>For the Khoikhoi the Moon was the `Lord of Light and Life'. >> >>Among the Xhosa it was believed that `the world ended with the sea, which >>concealed a vast pit filled with new moons ready for use', i.e. that each >>new lunation begins with a truly new moon. >> >>In Bushman legend the moon is a man who has angered the sun. Every month >>the moon reaches round prosperity, but the sun's knife then cuts away >>pieces until finally only a tiny piece is left, which the moon pleads >>should be left for his children. It is from this piece that the moon >>gradually grows again to become full. >> >>Texts used on our Legends of the African Sky poster >> >>When a mother refused to let her daughter have any of the roots roasting in >>the fire, the girl became so angry that she threw the roots into the sky, >>where the red and white roots now glow as red and white stars, and the >>ashes are the Milky Way. >> >>Unluckiest hunter in the sky is the man (Aldeberan) who married the sky god's >>daughters (the Pleiades). When he tried to shoot one of three zebras >>(Orion's belt) with his only arrow (Orion's sword), he missed. He doesn't >>dare go home without any game, and he doesn't dare get his arrow back for >>fear of the lion (Betelgeuse) lurking near the zebras. There he sits still, >>shivering, cold and hungry while his wives laugh at him around the fire. >> >>Some among the Tswana said that the sun is swallowed each night by a >>crocodile, and the sun emerges from the crocodile every morning. >> >> >>Among the Venda, the first person to see Nanga (Canopus) in the early >>morning sky would climb a hill and blow a phalaphala (sable antelope) >>horn. Among the Sotho, it was believed that the first person to see Naka >>(the horn star) would have good luck for the rest of his life. >> >>Several of the peoples of northern South Africa saw the bright stars of the >>pointers and the Southern Cross as giraffes. Among the Venda the giraffes >>were known as Thlutlwa, `rising above the trees', and in October the >>giraffes would skim over the trees on the southern horizon, reminding >>people to finish planting. >> >>IsiLimela `dies and is not seen. It is not seen in winter, and at last, >>when the winter is coming to an end, it begins to appear --- one of its >>stars is first, and then three, until going on increasing, it becomes a >>cluster of stars, and is perfectly clear when the sun is about to rise. >>And we say IsiLimela is renewed, and the year is renewed, and so we begin to >>dig.' >> >>Assorted Brief Tales: >> >>Legends of the Khoikhoi and the San: >> >>A girl child of the old people had magical powers so strong that when >>she looked at a group of fierce lions, they were immediately turned to >>stars. The largest are now in Orion's belt. >> >> >>A strong-willed girl became so angry when her mother would not give her >>any of a delicious roasted root that she grabbed the roasting roots from >>the fire and threw the roots and ashes into the sky, where the red >>and white roots >>now glow as red and white stars, and the ashes are the Milky Way. >> >>Dornan, 1925 >>(The Bushmen) >> >>And there the road is to this day. Some people call it the Milky Way; >>some call it the Stars' Road, but no matter what you call it, it is the >>path made by a young girl many, many years ago, who threw the bright >>sparks of her fire high up into the sky to make a road in the darkness. >> >>Leslau, Charlotte and Wolf. African Folk Tales (1963) >> >>When the Pleiades appear in the east, little ones are lifted by their >>mothers and presented to the stars . . . The Pleiades are considered >>friendly and the children are taught to stretch their hands toward them. >> >>The Pleiades, named Khuseti or Khunuseh by the Khoikhoi, are called the >>rainstars. Their appearance indicates the rainy season is near and thus >>the beginning of a new year. (Hahn, 1881, The Khoikhoi, or Bushmen) >> >>. . . when rain is accompanied by lightning, girls who are out in the open >>become killed by the lightning and are converted into stars. Therefore >>young unmarried women and girls must hide themselves from the rain. >>(Schapera 1930) >> >>According to the Namaquas, the Pleiades were the daughters of the sky >>god. When their husband (Aldeberan) shot his arrow (Orion's sword) at three >>zebras (Orion's belt), it fell short. He dared not return home because >>he had killed no game, and he dared not retrieve his arrow because >>of the fierce lion (Betelgueuse) which sat watching the zebras. There >>he sits still, shivering in the cold night and suffering thirst and >>hunger. >> >>Initiated men among the Namaqua could not partake of hare's flesh. >>Long ago the moon sent a message to men that as it died and was renewed, >>so should men be. The hare told men instead they would die >>and perish like the hare, but said nothing of renewal. >>(Tooke 1888, The Hottentots) >> >>The Sun was once a man who made it day when he raised his arms, for >>a powerful light shone from his armpits. But as he grew old and slept >>too long, the people grew cold. Children crept up on him, and >>threw him into the sky, where he became round and has stayed warm >>and bright ever since. >> >>According to a Naron bushman, the Sun turned into a rhinoceros at sunset, >>which was killed and eaten the people in the west, who then throw the >>shoulder blade towards the east, where it turns into an animal again >>and starts to rise. >> >>The Sotho calendar: >> >>Canopus was called Naka(the horn), or E a dishwa >>(it is carefully watched). Sotho >>men would camp in the mountains, where they made fires >>and watched the early morning skies in the South. It was believed that >>the first person to see the star would be very prosperous that year, >>with a rich harvest and good luck to the end of his life. In olden times >>the chief would give the lucky man with a heifer. The day after Naka >>was sighted was the time for the men with divining bones to examine >>their bones in still water, to predict the tribe's luck for the coming >>year. Among the Venda, the first person to see Nanga (Canopus) in the >>morning sky announced his discovery by climbing a hill and blowing >>a sable antelope horn (phalaphala). Among the Mapeli, the first person >>to see the star would begin ululating loudly enough to be heard in >>the next village, which would then join the noisemaking to warn other >>villages, each in turn until all knew Canopus had been seen. >> >>When selomela (the Pleiades) rose in the east, frost was at hand and >>the leaves fell from the trees in the river beds. >> >> >>If the senakane (the little horn) (Achernar) rises in the East very bright >>and giving off little lightnings, and the bullrushes are still in flower, >>men fear an early frost. If Canopus is seen in May with a very intense >>light, the frost would be very hard. >> >>The shield of the little horn is the Small Magellanic Cloud, known as >>mo'hora le tlala, `plenty and famine'. If dry dusty air made it appear >>dim, famine was to be expected. >> >>The bright stars of the pointers and the southern cross were often seen >>as giraffes, though different tribes had different ideas about which were >>male and which were female. Among the Venda the giraffes were known as >>Thutlwa, `rising above the trees', and in October the giraffes would >>indeed skim above the trees on the evening horizon, reminding people to >>finish planting. >> >>Tswana: >> >>The sky is stone, and the earth is flat. Water is beneath the earth and >>above the sky. >> >>Some believed that after sunset the sun traveled back to the east over the >>top of the sky, and that the stars are small holes which let the light >>through. Others said that the sun is eaten each night by a crocodile, and >>that it emerges from the crocodile each morning. >> >>The waning moon spills diseases. >> >>Its markings are a woman carrying a child, who was caught gathering wood >>when she should have been at a sacred festival. >> >>For the Tswana, the stars of Orion's sword were `dintsa le Dikolobe', three >>dogs chasing the three pigs of Orion's belt. Warthogs have their litters >>while Orion is prominent in the sky --- frequently litters of three. >> >>Ntshune was a star (possibly Fomalhaut) visible on winter mornings. >>This `kiss me' star showed the time for lovers to part before parents >>found them. >> >>The small constellation of Delphinus may have been seen by the Tswana as >>a mopane worm. >> >> >>Sotho,Swazi,Nguni >> >>The sun's `summer house' and `winter house' (the solstices) were >>important to the traditional calendar as in many other parts of the world. >>To the Xhosa these were `injikolanga', `the turning back of the sun'. >>As late as 1921, governors of royal >>Swazi villages trusted traditional observations more than printed calendars. >>One Zulu tradition held that the Sun died at sunset each day, and >>was eaten by a race of pygmies called iZichwe (Krige, 1969). >> >>Venus: iCelankobe (Zulu) = `asking for mealies'. As with the Sotho >>Se-falabogogo (`crust scrapings'), the idea is that someone who arrives >>for supper by the light of the evening star will do rather badly. The >>Tswana believed that if Venus were in the evening sky at hoeing season, >>there would be a good harvest. >> >>According to Credo Mutwa, the Southern Cross is the Tree of Life, `our >>holiest constellation'. >> >>IsiLimela or the Pleiades were the `digging stars', whose appearance >>in southern Africa warned of the coming need to begin hoeing the ground. >>All over Africa, these stars were used as a marker of the growing season. >>`And we say isiLimela is renewed, and the year is renewed, and so we begin >>to dig'. (Callaway 1970). Xhosa men counted their years of manhood from the >>time in June when isiLimela first became visible. >> >>To Xhosas, the Milky Way seemed like the raised bristles on the back >>of an angry dog. Sotho and Tswana saw it as Molalatladi, the place where >>lightning rests. It also kept the sky from collapsing, and showed the >>movement of time. Some said it turned the Sun to the east. A Xhosa >>tradition held that the sea concealed a vast pit of new moons ready >>for use. >> >>For Swazi and Zulu skywatchers, iNqonqoli or Ingongoni was a star >>associated with wildebeest, whose calves were born in the season when >>Spica rose before the sun and the morning star. >> >>Canopus was known to some tribes as the `ants' egg star' because of its >>prominence during the season when the eggs were abundant. >> >>Assorted: >>Among the Baronga each moon is regarded as a new birth after the death >>of the old one. At the appearance of the new moon, recently born children >>(third month) are `shown their moon'. The mother flings a burning stick >>toward the moon as the grandmother tosses the child in the air, crying >>`This is your moon'.The baby is then made to roll over in the ashes. >>Children lacking this rite would grow up stupid, and dull children are >>told, `You have not been shown your moon'. >> >>More Moon Legends >> >>See Hare and the Moon above under Khoisan stories, and the moon and >>stupidity in the above paragraph. >> >>Nwedzana=waxing crescent >>If the horns point up when the new crescent is sighted in the evening >>sky, it `was said to be holding up all kinds of disease, and when the >>horns were tipped down, the moon was a basin pouring illness over the >>world.' (Sotho,Tswana,Venda) >> >>`No doubt Shaka's harem guards were called the Qwayi-Nyanga, or moon- >>gazers, because they were to watch over the royal women as intently as the >>Zulu people watched the moon.' Ng'olumhlope namhla (Zulu) was the black >>or dark day after the waning crescent's disappearance from the sky. Many >>considered this a solemn day of rest, when no work or business should >>take place, and no weddings should be celebrated. >> >>`In Malawi the morning star is Chechichani, a poor housekeeper who allows >>her husband the moon to go hungry and starve; Puikani, the evening star, >>is a fine wife who feeds the moon thus bringing him back to life.' >> >>On March 30, 1885 an Ndebele impi which had just set out on campaign saw the >>moon turn red in a total eclipse, decided the army had been bewitched, >>and returned to Bulawayo. >> >>Many Africans saw the markings on the moon as a man or woman carrying a >>bundle of sticks. >> >>For the Khoikhoi the Moon was the `Lord of Light and Life'. >> >>Among the Xhosa it was believed that `the world ended with the sea, which >>concealed a vast pit filled with new moons ready for use', i.e. that each >>new lunation begins with a truly new moon. >> >>In Bushman legend the moon is a man who has angered the sun. Every month >>the moon reaches round prosperity, but the sun's knife then cuts away >>pieces until finally only a tiny piece is left, which the moon pleads >>should be left for his children. It is from this piece that the moon >>gradually grows again to become full. >> >>Stars: >> >>A legend of the Karanga people held that the stars were the eyes of the >>dead, while many Tswana held that they were the spirits of those unwilling >>to be born. Other Tswana believed that they were souls of those so long >>dead that they were no longer ancestor spirits. The Venda pictured the >>stars as hanging from the solid dome of the sky by cords, while other >>groups believed the stars to be holes in the solid rock dome of the sky. >> >>Counting the stars was proverbially a futile, painful effort. Venda >>children were told they would wet their beds if they tried it. >> >>Meteors: >> >>According to one Zulu woman, meteors are caused when celestial cattle >>drag their hooves, creating streaks in the floor of the sky which >>almost immediately fill in with mud. The Venda believed that one >>of the invisible cords holding up the stars had broken when a meteor >>was seen. >> >> >>Hope this is of some use. >> >>Sincerely, >> >>David Laney >>SAAO >> > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From wheel Mon Oct 5 14:40:03 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: outlines Content-Length: 133 Bon Giorno! Remember the outlines of your first papers on modern african countries are due tomorrow. See you then, Ciao, Craig >From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Mon Oct 5 14:42:34 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu Subject: final exams Content-Length: 345 Dear FS instructor: Please let me know if you do not intend to give a final exam for your Freshman Seminar. If you intend to do so, you need not notify me. Scheduling will code all FS classes for final exams but will remove all classes that do not intend to have exams. Thanks. I will supply you with reports on 3rd-hour attendance tomorrow. >From wheel Mon Oct 5 16:58:39 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: final exams Content-Length: 587 I will not give a final exam in my freshman seminar. Craig Wheeler > From doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Mon Oct 5 14:42:34 1998 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: Recipient List Suppressed:;@mail.utexas.edu > Subject: final exams > > Dear FS instructor: Please let me know if you do not intend to give a final > exam for your Freshman Seminar. If you intend to do so, you need not notify > me. Scheduling will code all FS classes for final exams but will remove all > classes that do not intend to have exams. Thanks. > > I will supply you with reports on 3rd-hour attendance tomorrow. > > > >From jaming@mail.utexas.edu Thu Oct 8 21:05:05 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Thursday's Class Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 399 Dr. Wheeler, I just found out that the message I tried to send to you about class today did not get through (I wrote: wheel@all.as... oops). Anyway, the message basically said that I was going to lunch with the engineering deptartmental visiting committee and that it was very important for me to go. I'll contact some people from class to find out what I missed. See you on Tuesday, Jamin >From wheel Thu Oct 8 22:17:26 1998 To: jaming@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Thursday's Class Content-Length: 252 Jamin, Thanks for the note. We worked some more on questions to send the "experts." I'll circulate drafts of them for more thought and discussion. No class Tuesday, I'll be away. Drafts of modern africa papers due Thursday for peer review. Craig >From AcadianYak@aol.com Mon Oct 12 18:27:05 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Hello Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 272 I just wanted to say that I enjoyed your class this year. I had to withdraw from the university to take care of my parents, and I had to do so with great haste. I'm sorry I wasn't able to complete the course, but I hope you it all pays off in the end. -Mikhail Zezulka See you and your drafts thursday. The Boulder meeting (I'm emailing from the Holiday Inn) has been very interesting... Craig >From wheel Mon Oct 12 22:00:51 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Hello Content-Length: 114 Mikhail, I'm sorry to hear that. You touched us all with your essay about your mother. I wish you well. Craig >From m902856@hotmail.com Thu Oct 15 17:15:10 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.97] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: missed class Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 568 Professor Wheeler, I'm sorry about missing class today. I was at the UGL studying all night until nine thirty this morning. I didn't get any sleep at all, nor did I go home. I finished my PSY test early, but I ended up falling asleep so I missed class. If at all possible, could you please update me on what went on in class today. Thank you so much. Again, I am so sorry that I missed class. Sincerely, Mary Tran FS Ancient Astronomy in Africa ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From m902856@hotmail.com Thu Oct 15 17:15:10 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.206.97] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: missed class Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 568 Professor Wheeler, I'm sorry about missing class today. I was at the UGL studying all night until nine thirty this morning. I didn't get any sleep at all, nor did I go home. I finished my PSY test early, but I ended up falling asleep so I missed class. If at all possible, could you please update me on what went on in class today. Thank you so much. Again, I am so sorry that I missed class. Sincerely, Mary Tran FS Ancient Astronomy in Africa ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From wheel Thu Oct 15 21:14:31 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: missed class Content-Length: 651 Mary, Not to worry. You are going so well in the class, you can afford a breather. I joked today that you were near to filling all your third hour so you can start selling credits ;) All we did today was to pass around drafts for peer comments. I then collected the drafts and will try to look them over and make comments before next Tuesday. I'll hand them back and will want the final version on Thursday. If you would like me to look over your draft, drop it by my office. I will put the ones I look at outside my office as I finish them and email people so they can come and pick them up. See you next week, Thanks for the note, Craig >From wheel Sun Oct 18 21:26:53 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: drafts Content-Length: 625 I did not get into the University this weekend (my rowboat leaked ;} ), but have looked at the drafts I collected on Thursday. I'll put them outside my office if you want to pick them up now. Don't forget to include a bibliography. The only general criticism I have is that many of these are very close to paraphrasing an encyclopedia. There is nothing wrong with utilizing an encyclopedia, but these are INTERESTING countries and many of these papers are edging toward making them seem dry and lifeless. If only for the sake of my reading pleasure, I hope you can put a little zest in them. See you Tuesday. Craig >From wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Oct 20 14:27:42 1998 To: africa@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: drafts Cc: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Content-Length: 140 I've put the drafts of Nic Griffin, Jim West, and Mike Hyman on a chair outside my office, RLM 17.230. Final versions due Thursday. Craig >From wheel Wed Oct 21 12:57:24 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Questions Content-Length: 132 John, I also wanted the draft of the letter you were going send incorporating those questions. Can you send that? Thanks, Craig >From wheel Wed Oct 21 13:09:19 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Email Rough Draft Content-Length: 73 John, Sorry, I got behind in my mail, I have your draft letter. Craig >From clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Wed Oct 21 13:20:58 1998 To: "Craig Wheeler" Subject: Re: African third hour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Content-Length: 1569 It's a thursday...will our class meet there that day? :) Jason -----Original Message----- From: Craig Wheeler To: AcadianYak@aol.com ; clendenen@mail.utexas.edu ; fender@mail.utexas.edu ; gurgi9@aol.com ; hollyp@mail.utexas.edu ; j.mao@mail.utexas.edu ; jaming@mail.utexas.edu ; jdwest@mail.utexas.edu ; joshb@mail.utexas.edu ; lbowman@mail.utexas.edu ; m902856@hotmail.com ; mhyman23@hotmail.com ; ncrow@mail.utexas.edu ; qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu ; rebmak@mail.utexas.edu ; wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu >From wheel Wed Oct 21 13:35:34 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: third hour Content-Length: 176 hmmm, Jason points out that the Christianity in Africa talk overlaps with our class. Our class probably will meet, but we can think about this as the time approaches. Craig >From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Thu Oct 22 13:28:45 1998 To: "J. C. Wheeler" Subject: Final Email Draft MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000A_01BDFDC0.1E2C2680" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Content-Length: 8342 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01BDFDC0.1E2C2680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable PROFESSOR WHEELER, I USED A SPECIAL BULLET FEATURE IN MY EMAIL PROGRAM. = PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF IT TURNS OUT OK. THANKS! Dear Professor Malville and Professor Wendorf, =20 I represent a group of students at the University of Texas in Austin = currently studying ancient African astronomy, especially the megaliths = and their astronomical significance. After studying your recent = magazine article published in Nature (April 1998), entitled "Megaliths = and Neolithic Astronomy in Southern Egypt", we became intrigued by your = investigations of Nabta. =20 We hope that you can answer a few questions we have raised = concerning Nabta. a.. Do you know of any correlation between Nabta and Namoratunga? b.. What are your findings concerning possible astronomical = alignments for the megaliths? Do these findings correlate with = Namoratunga's alignments? If so, what would you suggest as the basis of = this correlation? Are migrating tribes (Nabtians moving to Namoratunga) = a possibility? =20 c.. Has build-up of sediment or erosion occurred after the site was = abandoned? d.. Where did the Nabtians come from? What were they like? Where = did they go? =20 e.. Do you have a better idea or more proof about the age and = purpose of Nabta? =20 f.. Is there any significance to the arrangement of the stones at = Nabta being circular and the ones at Namoratunga II being linear? g.. Is there any possible relationship between Nabta and other = megalithic sites, such as Stonehenge? =20 h.. Are there any other megalithic astronomical sites in Africa? = Would you guess that there are more? Do you have any idea of where or = how many? i.. Have there been any new discoveries since your last article? =20 j.. In that last article, the possibility of a second publication = later this year was mentioned. If this article is still scheduled for = print, when will it be due for publication? We have the intention of creating a web resource on African = astronomy and megaliths and your work will be featured. Thank you very much for any help you can give us. =20 = Sincerely, = John Mao =20 >From wheel Thu Oct 22 15:55:51 1998 To: hollyp@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: snedegar Content-Length: 196 Holly, I just checked my email queue again and don't find anything from you. I did get the list of Snedegar questions from Mary on Tuesday, but don't seem to have anything else. Thanks, Craig >From wheel Thu Oct 22 16:04:53 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Final Email Draft Content-Length: 42 John, That looks good. Fire away. Craig >From wheel Mon Nov 2 14:57:05 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: third hour Content-Length: 382 This is undoubtedly too late to do you any good, but the world's foremost expert on the "solar neutrino problem" John Bahcall from the Institute for Advanced Study (Einstein's final haunt) is giving a talk on solar neutrinos today at 4 PM in RLM 4.102. I'm giving a talk on "Supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts and the Age of the Universe" Wednesday evening at 7 PM in RLM 6.104. Craig >From wheel Wed Nov 4 15:17:42 1998 To: m902856@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: Rice Content-Length: 280 Mary, My colleague, Bob Robbins, reminds me that the query to Rice is not generic, but that he thingks that someone there might know specifically about a stone circle in west Africa. If you have not mailed or contacted them yet, you ought to use that clue in your query. Craig >From mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Wed Nov 4 16:56:36 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: references Cc: nancypaine@mail.utexas.edu Content-Length: 1499 Craig - The library copyright expert, Nancy Paine, sez that: 1. Yes, the material is copyright protected. 2. When you ask the publishers for permission they will probably ask for a royalty payment, or copyright fee. 3. Your class Web page is publically accessible - directly from the Astronomy Dept's web page. 4. The UT System copyright atty. has said that use for educational purposes - ie, 1 copy for every member of a class for one semester can be considered acceptable use, sort of like reserves. But leaving it up for more than one semester is not acceptable. 5. She (N. Paine) suggests that you seek permission from the publisher, knowing that it will take some time to get it, and knowing that they will ask for payment. You could then put the articles up and be covered since you are making a good faith effort to comply, and the permissions could probably be in place in time for next semester's use, if that is even an issue for your. -OR- 6. You can distribute copies of the articles to your class -OR- 7. You can place copies of the articles on reserve for the class to make their own copies. This is legit for a single semester's worth of class. Nancy - If I have garbled any of this please correct me. Thanks, Molly ec: Nancy Paine ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly T. White ' 512-495-4616 Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library ' mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Univ. of Texas at Austin ' >From wheel Wed Nov 4 17:17:21 1998 To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Freshman Seminar web page Content-Length: 54 Kristin, That's a great start! Thanks a lot. Craig >From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 3 13:26:08 1998 Subject: FW: Egypt photos for Craig Wheeler To: wheel@astro.as.utexas.edu Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 449 Craig, I put the 8 photos I received from Tim on Astro's anonymous ftp area in the /pub/kristin directory. They will remain there for one week. Please let me know if you need your web site served from the department web server. I'm available if you need any other help. -Kristin ---------- From: TIM JONES To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Subject: Egypt photos for Craig Wheeler Date: Tue, Nov 3, 1998, 10:43 AM >From wheel Tue Nov 3 14:53:34 1998 To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: FW: Egypt photos for Craig Wheeler Content-Length: 129 Kristin I'd like to stop by with a student tomorrow at a little after 1 and talk to you about this web project. Thanks, Craig >From wheel Tue Nov 3 15:53:50 1998 To: mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: references Content-Length: 246 Molly, the citations for those two papers are: Lynch, B. M. and Robbins, L. H., Science, vol 200, 19 May, 1978, pp 766-768 and Malville, J. M., Wendorf, F., Mazar, A. A. and Schild, R. Nature, vol 392, April 1998, pp 488-490. Thanks, Craig >From wheel Tue Nov 3 16:12:34 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: research Content-Length: 184 Those of you who picked up new research topics today might want to chat with Clara Fowler. She's knows the research base very well and I think would be willing to lend a hand. Craig >From mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 3 17:25:54 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: references Content-Length: 1233 Craig - The Science article is older than any of our full text databases. I tried ADS also - not there. I would advise you to contact the journals' copyright and permissions offices to secure permission for both articles. >From Nature's web pages: "Whom do I contact for permission to use Nature copyrighted materials? For permissions contact (e-mail) permissions@nature.com quoting both the title of the contribution you want to use, and the issue of Nature it appeared in (e.g. Volume 382, No.6590, 1st August 1996). " For Science try e-mailing to: membership@aaas.org -OR- webmaster@aaas.org I've put in a call to the library's copyright person, and I'll let you know if she has anything definitive to say. Molly >Molly, > >the citations for those two papers are: > >Lynch, B. M. and Robbins, L. H., Science, vol 200, 19 May, 1978, pp 766-768 > >and > >Malville, J. M., Wendorf, F., Mazar, A. A. and Schild, R. >Nature, vol 392, April 1998, pp 488-490. > >Thanks, > >Craig ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molly T. White ' 512-495-4616 Physics Mathematics Astronomy Library ' mwhite@mail.utexas.edu Univ. of Texas at Austin ' >From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Wed Nov 4 16:13:21 1998 Subject: Freshman Seminar web page To: Jim West CC: Craig Wheeler Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 252 Jim, I am attaching the HTML document I used to get your web page started. You will find the link to this at http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/educa tion/courses.html. I hope this is a good start for you. Good luck, Kristin Logan c: Craig Wheeler >From hollyp@mail.utexas.edu Thu Nov 5 15:05:58 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: intermediate assignments Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 46 > I just sent the letter to Snedegar. Holly >From wheel Thu Nov 5 14:12:15 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: intermediate assignments Content-Length: 1508 I thought I would summarize my understanding of what various people are doing for assignments for the intermediate term, that is, in the next week or so as we continue to assemble information to write our summaries and construct the web page. Jim: webmaster Mike: rock art at Namoratunga and related sites Jamin: checking on L. R. Doyle, references and email contact (from email response of Robbins) Luke: contact with James Denbow in UT Anthropology Jason: other megaliths in Sudan and west Africa Mary: contacting Department of Anthropology at Rice That leaves Josh, Nic, John, Quoc, Holly and Tim to initiate a full court press to see if we can come up with some contacts in Africa. There seemed to be some sense to concentrate on cities, universities, and individuals in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and maybe Uganda. Some focus should be on the region around Lake Turkana in Kenya. SOMEONE must have been to Namoratunga II recently for some purpose or know something about it. Holly needs to mail Snedegar. Everybody should be thinking about how they want to contribute their final 8+ pages of text to the web site. Everybody should be thinking about the structure and content of the web site: text, graphics, audio. If you were constructing the site on your own, how would you do it. Look at the web and see how various sites you like are constructed. Check the source code ("document source" under the "view" menu on my Netscape browser) for hints of how to do nifty things. Craig >From wheel Thu Nov 5 14:31:10 1998 To: doliphant@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: seminar Content-Length: 342 Dave, I don't seem to have made any notation of when I am scheduled to give a talk to the Freshman Seminar's program. I have obtained some graphics, so feel prepared to talk on the subject of the seminar and what we are doing, Ancient Africa Astronomy (as opposed to my supernova research, which was the other possibility). Thanks, Craig >From wheel Fri Nov 6 14:03:46 1998 To: lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: title graphics Content-Length: 131 Luke, Not bad. How did you do the surreal Nabta one. I don't know if that gets us past copywrite, but it was pretty neat. Craig >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Fri Nov 6 14:07:41 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: title graphics Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 324 All i did i to get the surreal one is to filter the nabta photo through a filter in photo shop that makes it look like a pencil and charcoal drawing i could probably work to edit it somemore so it could be unrecognizable from the first one i don't know if that clears up the copyright issue either but it looks neat. luke >From m902856@hotmail.com Tue Oct 20 00:40:57 1998 X-Originating-IP: [128.83.102.69] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Questions for Snedegar Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 989 Questions for Snedegar: 1. Could there be a linguistical relationship between the Cushitic people who built Namoratunga II & the people who built Nabta? 2. Do you know anything about megaliths in Africa (astronomically related)? 3. Do you know anything about Ancient Astronomy in Africa (BC)? 4. Do you have any new published works? 5. Could you give us any references for/pertaining to Ancient African Astronomy (people, groups, organizations)? 6. Did different peoples in different areas of Africa use different constellations? 7. How are the people spread out in Africa (BC, AD, present)? 8. What tribes from ancient times still exist today? Are any of them still using Astronomy? 9. What ancient tribes used astronomy? 10. Do you think the Megaliths had anything to do with religion or worshipping beliefs? 11. What tribes had calendars, etc.? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From fender@mail.utexas.edu Thu Oct 22 09:45:07 1998 X-Sender: fender@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Draft Cc: Namoratunga@mail.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 1724 >Delivered-To: fender@mail.utexas.edu >Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:51:40 +0000 >From: "Jamin S. Greenbaum" >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 (Macintosh; I; PPC) >To: fender@mail.utexas.edu >Subject: Draft > > > >Dear Dr. L. H. Robbins, > >I am writing on behalf of 11 other students here at the University of >Texas at Austin who are currently enrolled in a course dedicated soley >to the investigation of Astronomy in Ancient Africa. In conducting our >research, however, we have run into several questions and areas that our >efforts in investigating have not uncovered and of which a little >expertise might be needed. If you would not mind taking a few moments >to look over the included questions, we would greatly appreciate it. > What were your first impressions of Namoratunga II? Was there any direct dating of Namoratunga II? Were the stones used at Namoratunga II brought in from else where? What is the signifigance of the stones sloping? How deep are the stones buried? Has build-up of sediment or erosion occured after the site was abandoned? To your knowledge has any one returned to Namoratunga II? What conclusions have you come to as far as the signifigance of Namoratunga II as a Astro-archeological site? Could the site at Nabta be related to Namoratunga II? If so how do you explain the age discrepancy? Is there any signifigance of the stones at Nabta being circular and the ones at Namoratunga II being linear? Is one possibly more advanced than the other? Are there any other megalithic sites in Africa? Would you guess that there are more? How has the Borana Calandar survived over the years when its practicality has been lost? >Sincerely, > >Jamin Greenbaum > > > >From wheel Thu Oct 22 09:59:04 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: nabta mail Content-Length: 3950 DRAFT Dear Professor Malville and Professor Wendorf, I represent a group of researchers at the University of Texas in = Austin currently studying Ancient African megaliths and their historical = significance. After completly studying your recent magazine article = published in Nature (April 1998), entitled "Megaliths and Neolithic = Astronomy in Southern Egypt", we became further intrigued about your = studies of Nabta. =20 I was wondering if you could possibly answer a few questions we had = concerning Nabta. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Do you know = of any corralation between Nabta and Namoratunga? What are your = findings concerning possible astronomical alignments for the megaliths? = Do these finding corralate with Narmoratunga's alignments? If so, what = would you suggest as the bassis of this corralation? Are migrating = tribes (Nabtians moving to Namoratunga) a possibility? Where did the = Nabtians come from? What were they like? Where did they go? Do you = have a better idea or more proof about the age and purpose of Nabta? Is = there any possible relationship between Nabta and other megalithic = sites, such as Stonehenge? Have there been any new discoveries since = your last article? In that last article, the possibility of a second = publication later this year was mentioned. If this article is still = scheduled for print, when will it be due for publication? I greatly appreciate all your help. We have the intention of = creating a powerful web resource on African megaliths and your work will = be duly noted. Once again, thank you very much for all your help. = Sincerely, = John Mao MY SUGGESTED REVISIONS Dear Professor Malville and Professor Wendorf, I represent a group of students at the University of Texas at Austin currently studying ancient african astronomy, especially the megaliths and their historical significance. After studying your recent magazine article published in Nature (April 1998), entitled "Megaliths and Neolithic Astronomy in Southern Egypt", we became intrigued by your investigations of Nabta. We hoping that you can answer a few questions we have raised concerning Nabta. Do you know of any correlation between Nabta and Namoratunga II in eastern Kenya? What are your findings concerning possible astronomical alignments for the megaliths? Do these finding correlate with the alignments proposed for Namoratunga II by Lynch and Robbins? If so, what would you suggest as the basis of this corralation? Are migrating tribes (Nabtians moving to Namoratunga) a possibility? Where did the Nabtians come from? What were they like? Where did they go? Do you have a better idea or more proof about the age and purpose of Nabta? Is there any possible relationship between Nabta and other megalithic sites, such as Stonehenge? Have there been any new discoveries since your article in Nature? In that article, the possibility of a second publication later this year was mentioned. If this article is still scheduled for print, when will it be due for publication? We have the intention of creating a web resource on African astronomy and the megaliths and your work will be featured. Thank you very much for any help you can give us. = Sincerely, = John Mao >From wheel Wed Oct 21 21:21:03 1998 To: AcadianYak@aol.com, clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, fender@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, ncrow@mail.utexas.edu, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, rebmak@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: email Content-Length: 114 I need the draft email messages to snedegar and robbins (Namoratunga). Before class tomorrow, if possible. Craig >From wheel Tue Nov 10 16:09:51 1998 To: j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Absence today... Content-Length: 5092 John, The big news was that Jamin turned up information for two more recent investigations of Namoratunga II and a fight over the astronomical alignments. I'll hand those out on Thursday. Jim West said you and he were going to consult on the opening page, but he was also not in class today. Did you talk to him? We talked some more about writing assignments for the web page. Drafts will be due Tuesday, Nov 24 to have time for me to look at them before the end of the term and get them posted on the web page. Craig > From j.mao@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 10 13:45:59 1998 > To: "J. C. Wheeler" > Subject: Absence today... > MIME-Version: 1.0 > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BE0CB1.03550200 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Professor Wheeler, > > Sorry for missing class today. I wasn't feeling too good this = > morning after I got back from my 9:30 class. I think I've caught a cold = > or something like that watching the football game last Saturday in the = > cold rainy weather. If you could please let me know of any crucial = > information you passed out or talked about during class today, i would = > greatly appreciate it. And, if you could also tell me whether there has = > been any further updates in the steps taken to making our web page. = > Thank you very much. > > = > = > Sincerely, > = > John = > Mao > > >From wheel Tue Nov 10 16:17:55 1998 To: jdwest@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Class Content-Length: 703 James, Thanks for checking in. We did not come up with anything new specifically for the web today, but Jamin did come up with some references to later visits to Namoratunga that are very interesting. Did you talk to John Mao or have a chance to work with the html of the opening page? Thanks, Craig > From jdwest@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 10 14:33:38 1998 > X-Sender: jdwest@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) > To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > Subject: Class > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > Professor Wheeler, I am sorry that i missed class i was feeling ill this > morning and ended up sleeping through my alarm. If there is something that > you need to give me, I can run by your office sometime. > james > >From wheel Tue Nov 10 16:20:10 1998 To: mhyman23@hotmail.com Cc: wheel Subject: rock art Content-Length: 1093 Michael, Jamin came up with some more expeditions to Namoratunga and they contain discussions of rock art, so it will be a place for you to start. I'll hand that stuff out on Thursday. I also called for drafts of the next round of writing on Nov 24 since after Thanksgiving there is only one more week of classes. Craig > From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 10 15:28:48 1998 > X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] > To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Dear Proffesor Wheeler, > Sorry I haven't been to class lately, I've been a little under the > weather. I emailed that Rock Art person in Africa and I will scan the > articles that we have and see if they help him. So far, I have not > gotten a response from him. What has been going on in class that I've > missed? Have you come up with anything for me to write to fullfill the > requirement? Let me know when you get the chance. I'll be in class on > Thursday. > Sincerely, > Michael Hyman > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >From wheel Tue Nov 10 16:21:00 1998 To: jdwest@mail.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Class Content-Length: 186 James, The other thing was that I decided that the drafts of the next round of writings should be turned in Nov 24 since there is only one more week of class after Thanksgiving. Craig >From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 10 15:28:48 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: Wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 596 Dear Proffesor Wheeler, Sorry I haven't been to class lately, I've been a little under the weather. I emailed that Rock Art person in Africa and I will scan the articles that we have and see if they help him. So far, I have not gotten a response from him. What has been going on in class that I've missed? Have you come up with anything for me to write to fullfill the requirement? Let me know when you get the chance. I'll be in class on Thursday. Sincerely, Michael Hyman ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From jdwest@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 10 14:33:38 1998 X-Sender: jdwest@mail.utexas.edu (Unverified) To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Class Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 210 Professor Wheeler, I am sorry that i missed class i was feeling ill this morning and ended up sleeping through my alarm. If there is something that you need to give me, I can run by your office sometime. james >From lbowman@mail.utexas.edu Thu Nov 5 19:11:37 1998 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: title graphics Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 251 here are where i put some of my title graphic ideas up on the web i thought that way you maybe could foward this message to everyone and they could see if they liked them. they are located at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/7221/africa.htm luke >From hollyp@mail.utexas.edu Mon Nov 2 15:04:20 1998 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Wheeler Subject: Re: third hour Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1647 > I sent the letter to the wrong adress and it got sent back to me. I tried to > send it to you when it got sent back to me, but I'm computer illiterate, so > that didn't work out. Sorry about the tardiness of my letter. Holly Dear Mr. Snedegar, I am writing to you on behalf of my Ancient Astronomy in Africa class at the University of Texas at Austin. We are currently investigating the astronomy of ancient African tribes, including megaliths like Nabta and Namoratunga II. We are interested in any connections between this astronomy and present day Africa. We have read a couple of your articles and would like to ask for your help. We have compiled a list of questions to ask you: What ancient tribes used astronomy? What tribes used calendars, and did any tribes use the same calendar? Were different constellations used by the various tribes in Africa? Do you know much about astronomically related megaliths in Africa? Do you think that megaliths had anything to do with religious or worshipping beliefs? Could there be a linguistical relationship between the people who built Nabta and the people who built Namoratunga II? Do you have any recently published works? Could you give us any references for or pertaining to ancient astronomy in Africa? We would greatly appreciate it if you would respond to our questions and also add any information that you think would be helpful. We are planning to create a web page based on our findings. Sincerely, Holly Price > > > > >From wheel Wed Nov 4 17:40:55 1998 To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Cc: wheel Subject: Re: Freshman Seminar web page Content-Length: 202 Kristin, A couple of minor things. I'd like my name to be J. Craig Wheeler, the way my wife likes it, and my office is 17.230, not 212. I've got it linked from my home page now, too, Thanks, Craig >From kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu Thu Nov 5 11:16:51 1998 Subject: Re: Freshman Seminar web page To: Craig Wheeler Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 556 Craig, I made the updates this morning and I will email a copy of the updated HTML document to Jim. Please let me know if I can help in any other way. Thanks, Kristin ---------- >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: kristin@astro.as.utexas.edu >Subject: Re: Freshman Seminar web page >Date: Wed, Nov 4, 1998, 5:40 PM > >Kristin, > >A couple of minor things. I'd like my name to >be J. Craig Wheeler, >the way my wife likes it, and my office is >17.230, not 212. > >I've got it linked from my home page now, too, > >Thanks, > >Craig > From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Nov 16 00:12:26 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu Cc: hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: archeoastronomy Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 226 This is Tim, from class. Im working on the Links page for the web page, and I would really appreciate it if you could send me any links that you know of that would be good. Ill stick them all on there! cya Tuesday.... Tim From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Nov 16 00:38:36 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: wow Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 700 well ive found a wealth of stuff on Nabta... about those pictures you were wondering about copyright infringement on? well ive found them all over the web, and even downloadable from the university of colorado in "the official press release" so i dont think anyone minds if we use them. found them while making my links page. here's the URL's: http://www.colorado.edu/PublicRelations/Egypt.html. http://members.tripod.com/~redfern_jillian/astro.html From Gurgi9@aol.com Mon Nov 16 00:42:10 1998 To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: wendorf heaven Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 267 http://www.smu.edu/~anthrop/fwendorf.html this page is Nabta heaven!!! Its even got a portrait of Wendorf himself! Not to mention lots of neat photos of stuff, including the ceremonial cow skeletons....-Tim From wheel Mon Nov 16 11:24:42 1998 To: Gurgi9@aol.com Cc: wheel Subject: Re: wow Content-Length: 133 Great, I think I'll ask anyway. I wonder why I could not find them when I looked at the Colorado press office page? Oh, well. Craig From wheel Fri Nov 13 16:57:00 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: writing assignments Content-Length: 1811 I apologize I did not get to this sooner, I had to write and administer an exam in my other course. As I said in class on Thursday, I would like to speed the process of writing summaries and getting material on the web page up a bit, by doing things in smaller pieces, but sooner. Here are some assignments I would like to make. As much as possible, I have tried to make these consonant with the topics on which you have already indicated you would like to work. It would be great if you could write some draft material and mail it to me before next Tuesday's class and also bring a hard copy to class. I would like everyone to read the Soper/Lynch "dialog," but please especially read the Doyle and Wilcox article. By "synopsis" below, I mean a short summary of what the main points of the paper are. This could be just a few paragraphs. Try to put the basic points in your own words. Whatever you write will count toward your "8 pages." After we get this first pass done, we'll take stock of what we need to do next. 1) Synopsis of Lynch and Robbins (1978) - Jim 2) Synopsis of Soper/Lynch- Jamin 3) Synopsis of Doyle and Wilcox - Nic 4) Synopsis of Malville et al (Nabta) Nature paper - Josh 5) Key Bibliography with annotations, a short description of what the paper contains and its relevance - Quoc 6) Summary of the Class - goals, structure, procedures, results - Mary 7) Discussion of Nabta cultural background - Jason 8) Discussion of petroglyphs - Michael 9) Discussion of cultural background of Namoratung'a I, II other Lynch and Robbins papers, etc - Luke 10) Discussion of astronomical issues - Borana calendar, key stars, star systems, Snedegar, precession, Paul paper - Tim 11) Summary comparing and contrasting Nabta and Namoratung'a II - Holly See you Tuesday, Craig From wheel Sat Nov 14 16:58:47 1998 To: clendenen@mail.utexas.edu, gurgi9@aol.com, hollyp@mail.utexas.edu, j.mao@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, jdwest@mail.utexas.edu, joshb@mail.utexas.edu, lbowman@mail.utexas.edu, m902856@hotmail.com, mhyman23@hotmail.com, qdnguyen@mail.utexas.edu, wheel Subject: Wendorf Content-Length: 954 Read that short article I gave you in class by Wendorf, Schild, Applegate, and Gautier! Toward the end he list a batch of references to megaliths and menhirs along the north coast of the Mediterranean (Renfew 1981), a conceivable link to Stonehenge and other European megaliths, and megalithic alignments and stone circles in "Sahalian and sub-Saharan Africa from Ethiopia to Senegal and north to the Maghreb..." being "especially numerous in West Africa where there are literally thousands of tumuli and megaliths" (Martin and Becker 1974, 1984, en francais). He also mentions "two older radiocarbon dates of 7440 BP and 6700 BP associated with megaliths in the Central African Republic," both of which are "rejected as too old." They are comparable to Nabta. I think that little collection hits every one of the allusions to megaliths in the email from Snedegar! We need to chase these references down and summarize them on the web site. Craig From betty@astro.as.utexas.edu Tue Nov 17 11:31:18 1998 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) Subject: Re: text Content-Length: 561 >Please print a hard copy and send the text to Kristin to >be posted on our web page. > >I need the hard copy by noon. ----------- It didn't decode completely; I printed the entire file & put in your folder. Perhaps Kristin has software that can further decode. Participation by employees concerning workplace issues which affect them is desirable for the university community. There should be employee participation within each school or administrative department. -- Harvard University-Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers contract, 1993 From mhyman23@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 19:13:15 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.46.150] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 688 that sounds good, I'll be in RLM tomorrow so I'll stop by your office when I'm there. I'll just bring you my rough draft when I'm there. Michael >Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:54:30 -0600 (CST) >From: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu (Craig Wheeler) >To: mhyman23@hotmail.com >Cc: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu > >Michael, > >thanks for the note. I did hand out the chapter by Warner >in Astronomy Before the Telescope where he actually gives >a picture of a petroglyph with a comet or meteor. You >might want to stop by and get a copy of that before you >finish your summar. > >Craig > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From joshb@mail.utexas.edu Tue Nov 17 19:27:34 1998 X-Sender: joshb@mail.utexas.edu To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: rough draft Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 458 Dear Dr. Wheeler, Sorry I couldn't make it to class this tuesday. I've had a bad sinus infection for about a week and finally had to go to the doctor today. I will give my rough draft to you Thursday and probably e-mail it to you even sooner. Sometime tomorrow, late afternoon if that's alright. But I will be in class Thursday, regardless of my condition! Again, I apologize for the delay in getting my paper. Josh Britt From gurgi9@hotmail.com Tue Nov 17 19:27:36 1998 X-Originating-IP: [208.24.56.95] To: wheel@alla.as.utexas.edu Subject: Fwd: archeoastronomy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Length: 2770 I thought this might interest you >--- Below this line is a copy of the message. > >Return-Path: >Received: (qmail 321 invoked by uid 0); 18 Nov 1998 00:58:01 -0000 >Message-ID: <19981118005801.320.qmail@hotmail.com> >Received: from