Where in the world are you from?

[BakaTensai]

Thanks for the dragon-lore!

Yeah, super-jealous of the castle scene over in the old world...

Interesting side note: my great great grandmother was a full-blood Cherokee. I didn't really inherit her characteristics (I have blue eyes and am very white), but it kind of connects me to the prehistory of this land.

[Sephiroth]

Certainly, it connects you, yes. In the same way, my lineage is of the Highland Clan, Donnachaidh, and my ancestors were Gaelic-speaking Highlanders, but I do not speak a word of Gaelic and live in the coastal city of Dundee. Despite that, I still feel very much connected to my ancestral history.

I'm studying prehistory atm, so hopefully I will have the opportunity to learn more about the Cherokee, and other North American peoples.

[Wybren]

It is interesting how people feel connected to places. I am of first fleet stock and my ancesters are from Wales, Hull and Ireland and even though I have never been over seas I feel drawn to Wales.
Prehistory is very interesting, I am currently doing a degree in palaeoanthropology and archaeology its great fun.

[Sephiroth]

Cool! I'm doing a course called World Archaeology as part of my degree, it has a pretty wide-ranging focus. It's fascinating! What you are doing sounds great. One of the things I really wish we knew more about is the psychological world of the earliest societies........

[Leisha]

Wybren - you have ancestors from Hull? I grew up in Yorkshire and worked in Hull.

[Wybren]

That would be great to know about their psychologies. some of the units that we can do are great, I have studied rock art, stone artifacts, evolution, evolution of human sexuality (that one is really interesting). Have you heard of Homo floresiensis ? the one they nicknamed the hobit? My lectures were on the team that discovered it.

[Leisha]

Wow! I remember watching the documentary on the discovery of "the Hobbit". I'm envious of your learning. Stone artifacts and rock art sounds like courses I would enjoy.

[Wybren]

Leisha, what is it like there, I used to watch a show set in the yorkshire dales and always thought that it was so beautiful, is still that beautiful?? my ancesters were mowforth's and everinghams. One day I would love to go over there

[Wybren]

Rock art is really cool, I had to do a report on site management and actually had to do a 23km round hike to study the place. it was pretty amazing.

[Sephiroth]

I know Homo floresiensis, yes. A possible case of island dwarfism? Although it's still a hot topic of debate, isn't it?

Mike Morwood and Peter Brown? Did you meet them?

[Wybren]

Mike Moorwood was my lecturer for Aboriginal Archaeology and Rock art but I never met him as he was in Indonesia most of the time and peter brown was my lecturer for human evolution and paeloanthropology. I have spoken with him a few times. I think I have him next year for forensic anthropology

[Sephiroth]

That is really cool, I'm slightly jealous.

[Wybren]

Yeah well I am slighltly jeolous that you get to live in Scotland When my son was born the nurse who looked after him in Intensive Care was a Scot and we think that Scots are among the nicest people in the world (also you have Billy Connelly, Sean Connery and Ewan MacGreggor)

[Sephiroth]

Well, some of us are okay.

A close friend of mine spent a year in Australia not long ago, and he absolutely loved it. He said he could happily live there, if it wasn't for the fact that all his friends are here.

You sure you could put up with the weather, here?

[Wybren]

I could quite happily live with the weather there, at least you have seasons. it got to 30 degrees this winter. at the moment its like we have 9 months of summer with some spring and autumn thrown in. I love it here though.