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Bernard stated: "Modern chihuahuas have no native American genes."
New research proves that Chihuahuas were a Native American dog whose genetic origins trace back to Asia NOT Europe as was previously asserted in this thread a year ago.
This new research can be found in a paper and a PhD dissertation. The paper is:
"MtDNA analysis confirms early Pre-Colombian origins of Na
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Bernard wrote:
> Just because you don't know that in 2720 the Maya
> were literate does not mean that any Mesoamerican
> scholar agrees with you.
What are you talking about Bernard? Are you saying the Maya were literate in 2720 BC?
>while
> you are it please provide a citation from a
> refereed publication that supports your proposal
> that The Long Count
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Rebby Wrote:
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> The whole suggestion seems vanishingly flimsy to
> me. The scenario requires that the preliterate
> Maya ancestors
First, we don't know the Maya/Olmec/Whoever of 2720 BC were pre-literate. Not having stone monuments with writing that date to this time period doesn't prove there was no writing at t
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
bernard Wrote:
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> The fundamental problem with this whole thing is
> that there was NO Maya calendar in either 2720 or
> 1142. The Long Count calendar dates to about
> 400-300 BC.
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> Bernard
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Actually, we don't know this absolutely. All we know is there are no long count dates carved in stone befor
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Hermione Wrote:
> The question of Mayan thought and culture
> underlies their calendar, which forms part of Mike
> Baillie's research,
Mike's paper is about the possible origin of the Mayan long count calendar and how it was mathematically derived by someone in the past noticing a specific number of days had lapsed between two possible impact events (as revealed in ic
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Bernard wrote the following in another thread that is more appropriate in the current thread:
>> With respect to any number of other claims that have been made about the historical accuracy of folk memories extending far into the past (the Noachian Flood, Native American myths about the formation of Mountains, etc.)- I don't believe them. Therefore, as far as I'm concerned, th
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Gary Daniels
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Apocalypse
bernard Wrote:
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> I have dealt with several of Gary Daniel's
> previous proposals, and you are aware that I have
> serious doubts about his work and have been quite
> critical of it. With respect to any number of
> other claims that have been made about the
> historical accuracy of folk memories extending far
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
bernard Wrote:
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> Rick et al.
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> My wife and I are engaged in a radical downsizing.
> Sometime in the future we are moving to a much
> smaller place. Therefore I have gone down from 8
> bookcases to 3 and from 4 file cabinets to 2. In
> the process, I've donated some 1500 books to
> various libraries an
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
In Temple XIX at Palenque the Maya recorded a flood that occurred around 3300 BC, nearly 200 years before the start of the present Mayan calendar cycle in 3114 BC. According to the accounts in their historical chronicles known as the Chilam Balam, this flood was described as an "avalanche of water" and was accompanied by fire, rocks and other debris that rained down from the sky. All of
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Gary Daniels
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Apocalypse
Dr. Mike Baillie, a dendrochronologist at the Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland has made a very interesting discovery. He noticed that ammonium and nitrate peaks in the ice core record, signatures of comet impacts with Earth, occur on or near baktun endings in the Mayan calendar. This discovery suggests that the ancient Maya were aware of a cycle associated with repeated impacts of comets wi
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
well, prestige also doesn't protect archaeological sites. only a concerned citizenry can do that. but people can only care about what they know about. and a bunch of academics publishing boring articles in prestigious journals that no one reads except a few specialists isn't going to inform the average person about the existence of these sites.
and then these same academics cry when
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Well, I included a computer recreation of the site that shows exactly how it would have appeared: a small village surrounded by a shell ring. It's not like I used the image of a medieval castle or something and then when people show up they say, "oh my god, it looks nothing like the picture."
My computer recreation is so accurate that the archaeologist who researched the site ha
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
which just once again proves that peer review doesn't guarantee the Truth. so thanks for making my point with yet another example.
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
You stated: "So this "any light in the sky" symbol you are discussing covers the stars, planets, moon and the sun? "
No,they had separate symbols for the moon,comets, and "guest stars" (supernovas/comets that had yet to form a tail...i.e., temporary lights in the sky). This is laid out in my research paper on the Forsyth Petroglyph. If you have a specific question
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
"His other articles are equally as bad, from my review."
Please name each article and what was so "bad" about it. These types of general comments are pointless and unbelievably arrogant.
So, Miss Smarty Pants, take me to task with ACTUAL EXAMPLES of my "badness."
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
"An ingenious use of fish leftovers recycled as property fences."
I agree. Very ingenious. Shell is actually a very good building material. Especially if you live on the coast where there is no stone. And hey, it's lasted 4,000 years already and it looks to me it could be here another 4,000!
Basically they took lemons and made lemonade. Quite ingenious if you ask me. Those wh
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
"Quite frankly, I would describe it as "a few huts surrounded by a shell midden"!"
And you would have wasted your time writing the article because no one would click on that headline. I know....I've written the same article with different headlines multiple times. This one got 50,000 page views. The others got around 50!
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
I have all my sources listed in the more in-depth article at LostWorlds.org. There's a link in the references cited page to Victor Thompson's PhD dissertation based on his research at the site. It's worth a read for anyone interested.
It should also be pointed out that not every shell ring scholar agrees with his interpretation that these are simply trash piles and not inten
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
"Nor is it 'older than the pyramids'!
That tidbit of info came straight out of the archaeologist's mouth who investigated the site. His name is Victor Thompson. Take it up with him.
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
"I guess 'walled city' sounds better."
Yes, it sounds a lot better and National Geographic does it all the time for the same purpose: it gets people's attention. That's the only point of a headline in the popular press. It ain't a journal article.
I've written the same article multiple times with more subdued headlines and gotten a grand total of mayb
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Kat,
First, Kat you stated: ""The sun was revered as a supreme deity by the Natchez and others of the ancient Southeast" ..so Idoubt they saw the sun as a star."
And my response was that just because they saw it as a deity doesn't mean they also didn't see it as a star. And I used evidence of Venus ALSO being seen as a deity BUT ALSO being seen as a star. That
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
You should check out the syllabi for many of the university courses in the grand ole USA. Not to mention the nonsense that has been taught in our public schools about Native Americans over the past 50 years.
In my Intro to Anthropology class at Georgia State University the professor was a militant vegan. She was discussing how most of the meat Native Americans ate would have naturally been rot
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Who is this question for and what is it in regards to????
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
"Assuming they knew what you know is a common research error. "
Thanks for that bit of wisdom, Jammer. But an even more common error is thinking you know what the topic is when clearly you don't.
The topic isn't whether they believed the sun was completely different from the stars. The topic is whether this symbol, the circled-dot (circumpunct) is SOLELY a sun symbol or
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Gary Daniels
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And your point?
Yes, I think the translators got it wrong. I don't think the circled-dot (circumpunct) is solely a sun symbol. I think the circumpunct is used to represent any light in the sky, sun or star.
Their confusion or as you say, ""we may have got this wrong, or don't understand it completely..." is a direct result of their BELIEF that this symbol ONLY repr
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Mesoamericans also saw Venus as a deity (Quetzalcoatl and Tlaloc both have Venus associations) but that doesn't mean they didn't also recognize it as a star....or more simply "bright light in the sky." I think the circled-dot symbols being used as both sun and star symbols suggest that it was a symbol which meant "bright light in the sky" as opposed to solely "s
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
I didn't say corn and the dog pots showed up at the same time. You're confusing two separate articles. The dog pots show up in Georgia around 1325 AD.
My reference to corn was in the article about Mayan glyphs on Swift Creek pottery. My argument is that these glyphs show up around 200 AD, the same time that corn first arrived in Florida at Fort Center and Ortona Mounds.
Now who�
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
A previous Spanish expedition in the southeast, the Narvaez expedition, made note of an animal which raised its young in a pouch...clearly a reference to an opossum- the only marsupial in the southeast. Not once did they refer to this animal as a "little dog." Charles Hudson simply didn't do his research and the editors let it slide because of his status...which is EXACTLY what
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
Bernard,
I agree we need to find some Chihuahua bones in Mexico in order to "prove" that Chihuahuas existed as far back as 100 AD at Tres Zapotes. Yes, the artifact at Tres Zapotes doesn't "prove" there were Chihuahuas but it is certainly interesting that this artifact does, indeed, look like a Chihuahua and thus it is a valid question to ask, "is it?"
You
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Gary Daniels
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Ancient History
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