Peissel

Michel Peissel
... Michel Georges Francois Peissel (February 11, 1937 – October 7, 2011) was a French ethnologist, explorer and author ... Michel Peissel was an emeritus member of the Explorers Club and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ...

Michel Peissel - Marriages and Children
... Michel Peissel was married three times and has five children, Olivier Peissel and Jocelyn Peissel, from his marriage to Marie-Claire de Montaignac, Octavia Peissel and Morgan Peissel, from his marriage ...

Classic Maya Collapse - Theories - Foreign Invasion
... Dr Michel Peissel believes that the well documented conquest of Yucatán in the 9th century by the Chichen Itza polity, led to the rerouting along coastal ... Peissel's theory, validated by several scholars, explains why the collapse was not general and also why at the time of the collapse of lowland cities other towns flourished - most of them along the new routes opened ... To prove the feasibility of this transfer from overland trade routes to the sea, Dr Peissel with three Mexican archeologists and ten companions travelled 650 ...

Herodotus - Analysis and Recent Discoveries
... scholarship was made by the French ethnologist Michel Peissel ... On his journeys to India and Pakistan, Peissel claims to have discovered an animal species that may finally illuminate one of the most bizarre passages in Herodotus's Histories ... Now, Peissel says that in an isolated region of northern Pakistan, on the Deosai Plateau in Gilgit–Baltistan province, there exists a species of marmot, (the Himalayan marmot), (a type of burrowing ...

Gold-digging Ant - Herodotus
... French ethnologist Michel Peissel claims that the Himalayan marmot on the Deosai Plateau in Gilgit–Baltistan province of Pakistan, may have been what Herodotus called giant "ants" ... Peissel interviewed the Minaro tribal people who live in the Deosai Plateau, and they have confirmed that they have, for generations, collected the gold dust that the marmots bring to the surface when ... In his book, The Ants' Gold The Discovery of the Greek El Dorado in the Himalayas, Peissel conjectures that Herodotus may have confused the old Persian word for "marmot" with ...