Marduk Wrote:
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> the best source on earth for tin at this time was
> right near lake titicaca
> where tin mines have been found mined out in the
> late neolithic period.
> the sumerians didn't value gold very much as their
> economy was based on silver
> which goes someway to explaining why the locals
> later had gold in abundance


It hardly matter where the *best* source for tin is! And I'm not sure the best source was at Titicaca anyway ... however according to James D. Muhly, 1995, Mining and Metalwork in Ancient Western Asia, in: Jack M. Sasson, ed. 1995, Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Vol. III, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 1501-1521) Afganistan and Central Asia had plenty enough tin for Sumeria.


>
> And really
> come on now
> the depiction of the sumerian tree of life is
> clearly a coca bush


I don't see how you can say it is CLEARLY anything! Why on earth would he only bring back a coca bush? Where are the potatos? The tomatos? The peanuts? The beans? The corn cobs in the archaeological record? The peppers? The squash? The gourds? South America was filled to the brim with new and fantastic foods ... when the Spanish came there and began exporting food products out they exploded in every market area they touched and raced around the globe.


>
> the fact that the gilgamesh story describes south
> america so well as being across a vast sea debunks
> totally the idea that the cedar forest is in the
> lebanon as orthodoxy suggests
> theres plenty of cedar forests in peru


From what I've read the Gilgamesh story could be describing any number of places!

> another reoccuring theme in sumerian texts is the
> mountain range where both lapis lazuli silver and
> cornelian are found in abundance.

Also Afganistan ... there are mountain there you know


> the Sumerians called the mountain where
> Upnapishtims temple was located red snake
> mountain
> when the area around titcaca is literally crawling
> with red tailed boa

Afganistan alone has over 270 varieties of snakes (52 of them poisonous) are you sure there are no red ones? Just a few seconds of searching turned up the Red Sand Boa ...


> large red snake very noteworthy
> and the dragon boats of titicaca are identical to
> those used by the sumerian civilisation
> in both their construction and their outward
> design


If you live near the water and have reeds how else do you tie them up to make boats? I'm sure anyone with half a brain would have noticed that reeds float.



> The fact that the sumerians settled in areas of
> marshland where they could find supplies of both
> reeds for boat building and clay for temple
> building is lost on most as insignificant


Rivers and marshlands are settled first almost everywhere throughout the world for many various reasons....



Kat

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