Bullroarers - from the Dravidians to Australia?
You know the thing that Crocodile Dundee swings? That's a bullroarer.
I've found pictures of them in King Tut's tomb, and the ancient migrants from northern Africa must have brought them to Dravidian India. Sometime around 3000 BCE - about 1500 BCE, Dravidians moved to the north of Australia.
I've never seen a Dravidian bullroarer, but I would love to know if it looks like the contemporary Australian or the ancient Egyptian ones.
Bethe
AAA Meetings and reference
Good to know you will be there. Maybe we will meet up. As I said, though, I'm not doing genetic research and don't know anything about hair types. I am looking at bullroarers.
I'll be giving two presentations. The first is on Tuesday at the Visual Research Conference (Society for Visual Anthropology). I believe my presentation is late in the morning. Then, I am doing a poster at the SVA-sponsored session on Thursday morning. Both presentations are titled "The Bullroarer as a Way of Knowing." If you want to check out some of my work, please just go to www.tui.edu and look under the doctoral faculty for Bethe Hagens.
That reference I mentioned earlier is Adcock et. al., “Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians”, PNAS (2001). Another is
Redd, A. and Stoneking, “Peopling of Sahul: mtDNA variation in Aboriginal Australian and Papua New Guinean populations," American Journal of Human Genetics, v. 65 1999.