[Podcast Episode 58] When God wanted Israel to really listen, what did he remind them of? We look at Isaiah to see how creation plays a big part in our respect for God, then share a review of the Patterns of Evidence: Young Explorers series, and discuss how the ancients Read more…
Stone Age Stone Age n. 1. The earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone tools. 2. Slang An extremely backward or primitive era or state: Have you ever been around teenagers who talked and acted as if their parents, teachers, and adults in general didn’t Read more…
If you remember from the Ice Age posts, we figure it took about 500 years for the ice sheets to be the biggest they got before melting. When all that water was trapped on top of the continents, it wasn’t filling up the ocean. All scientists figure that the water Read more…
Originally published October, 2013, still relevant, their blog has just gotten way bigger! One of the most exciting things to learn about is just how smart and talented our earliest forefathers actually were. I just started a book with my six year old on people around the world and Read more…
Not so very long ago, people were just learning to make fire. They finally invented a stone-chipped wheel, and started using more than just grunts and shoves to talk to each other. They wore only skins draped over one shoulder and they never trimmed their hair or bathed. That’s what most Read more…
Nazca Lines – Spider (Photo credit: CB Photography)
One of the very cool things I’ve learned in the past year or so is just how small of things that the ancients could see. The first time I heard about this ability was when I learned about the Nazca Lines of Peru. These are actually huge, shallow ditches carved out of the desert plain. The pictures we can still see are of a sorts of things including a monkey, condor and this spider.It’s impossible to see on the picture I found for my post, but if you click on the spider picture I got from the the Wikipedia page, you will see that one leg has a long bend that extends far beyond the carefully carved legs on the rest of the drawing. (more…)
Having studied a bunch of the amazing things our first forefathers made got me wondering about the dikes in Holland. Turns out their dike system isn’t terribly ancient, although “Pliny the Elder” (about the time of Jesus) had this to say about the Dutch: A miserable people is living there Read more…
I’ve been reading through another of my new books, the hot-off-the-presses title: The Genius of Ancient Man. I’m hoping to get some more ideas to add to my collection of posts because this topic is as big a thinking-changer as any. So far, it seems that I’ve already at least Read more…
Last year my oldest two kids and I got to read a lovely book on Michelangelo by Diane Stanley. I highly recommend her book both because of the depth of coverage for children, but also how deftly she avoids showing complete indecency so I didn’t have to keep holding my Read more…
