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A poignant moment for someone like myself who was lucky enough to descend into the tomb of the Lord Pakal when it was open for public viewing.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
QuoteWell of course the problem is that people aren't looking at the logistic challenge of moving a bulk cargo from a location in central North America to Europe. The great lakes would provide a way to move it by water but the route is not complete - a number of portages would have to occur until the sea was reached. Once there the cargo would faced a north Atlantic sea journey.Given the tec
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
QuoteKhazar-khum Wrote:China, though, has made it a political agenda to rewrite history with the Han as what is essentially the only source of humanity & civilization. That this is happening in the 21st C is disturbing, to say the least.
Living in Vancouver Canada we see this all the time.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Someome has already figured this out-there's no mystery at all
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
QuoteThere is a definite agenda on the parts of a powerful clique in China to eventually prove they were the creative spark that drove the rest of the planet into progression.
Agreed-I see it constantly where I live.
QuoteThe only reasons to make such a claim I can think of are disquieting to say the least.
I would add nauseating.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
QuoteIt was noted in the (1970's?) that had the Polynesians made it to SA that might have settled on the off lying islands - as far as I know neither the Polynesians nor the SA did that.
There's been some speculation about Polynesian ancestry for the indigenous on the Chilean Island of Chiloe, based on some legends and use of the earth oven known as Culanto-which is now popular througho
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
QuoteParagraph 3 is a set of assumptions all that build upon one another. No different than gavin. And NOT evidence.
Quite agree.
Note that contact between Tahiti and Hawaii did exist, Rapa Nui script was developed after European contact, Chatam Islanders gave up agriculture because the land was unsuitable to their methods/knowledge not because they couldn't phone home.
Having visit
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
QuoteWarwick L Nixon Wrote:Why does Zahi have to be drug into every
> archeology discussion?
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> What ever happened to proffessional detachment???
The same thing that happened to some people's sense of humour.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Rather chauvinistic tone to that article-Hawaii was one of the last places to be settled and techniques were well advanced when people first travelled there.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
I often log on late @ night in the NA Pacific time zone and of late have rec'd an error message telling me HoM doesn't exist.
In the AM all is forgiven and we're back to normal.
Are there ongoing server issues or an upgrade going on?
TIA
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Sam Salmon
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Coffee Shop
I'm late to this party but do live/travel in small boats (under 20') along the coast of British Columbia regularly in season.
Although our boats do have motors lots of people here use the flimsiest of Kayaks to travel great distances-even to Alaska-this to me seems much more likely than someone risking the wrath of the open North Pacific-a place I also know as deadly dangerous.
So
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
"The Pacific sea snake hasn't progressed because the Panama Canal is fresh water. The sea snake requires salinity. Likewise, Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan River are fresh water."
While Pacific Sea Snakes haven't traversed to the Caribbean via the Panama Canal the Tarpon Megalops atlanticus has passed from the Caribbean to the Pacific.
Not in great numbers but they are
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Wow!
Two whole weeks in Nicaragua-think what the Mighty White Explorer must have uncovered!
Honestly I don't know whether to laugh or cry this story is straight out of the forties-Rider Haggard and all that.
And let's not forget William Walker!
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
"Going a mile in that kind of boat is a spectacular accomplishment. Another point. This was open water travel. Sail or row they went and had to come back. That is not a one way trip one time. they also could navigate as they returned many times to Punt. it has been suggested that it was similar to river travel. Not even close. And sailing/rowing along a shore exposes one to attack as well as
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Sam Salmon
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Laboratory
"Depends on how long this sight has been known to the looters"
Looters is an easy term to use-local inhabitants in need of metal (or stone or bone) use what sources they can find-this all happened long before the advent of rich tourists.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Lots of study of these man made structures over the years not a lot on the net.
Some wonderful photos here
The former professor has hurt himself somewhat in the past by publicising some of his rather unpalatable political opinions.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
"They weren't that successful. There still aren't a lot of Micronesians."
One could argue they were successful-they haven't eaten themselves out of house and home.
I agree the question does tend toward the daft side-anyone wanting to investigate further could contact the Good Folks @ the Polynesian Voyage Society
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Quoteit appears the story is doomed to Sci-Fi B movies, run late at night.....
Anyone who sat through the latest movie about GK knows the truth of the above-it was bad, slow and worse-something of a joke in fact.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Why the rabid Russian chauvinism?
Or is it laziness?
Or ignorance?
In any case it's inexcusable.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Lee Olsen Wrote:
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
"If you can't prove the coastal route was ice free all the way, then your imaginary people were eating a lot of ice."
I've done the route from Alaska south to the 49th parallel a number of times in small boats-marine sources of food abound.
Fish, Birds, marine Mammals of all types abound, always did.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
archaeo Wrote:
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> Thanks. This is huge news!
Well actually no it's Old News.
Polynesians have known this since the voyages were made and the exploits were recorded in the best pre literate/mnemonic manner.
In fact the voyage of Hokule'a back in 1976 proved beyond a doubt that the knowledge of long distance voyages had
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Too bad the article is so thin/poorly written-it reads like it was written by a high school student.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Please split the Egypt content into it's own universe-where it already is(!)
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Sam Salmon
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Coffee Shop
Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> Was there some cultural reason that the poles
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In short-Yes.
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
Otzi would be said to be a 'special case' as his nearest living relatives are in Ireland.
One Irishwoman of his lineage was quoted as saying "he was obviously an Irishman who came to grief while travelling on the continent"(!)
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Sam Salmon
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Ancient History
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