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Ancient People Followed 'Kelp Highway' To America, Researcher Says
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| 2-19-2006
| Bjorn Carey
Posted on 02/20/2006 3:32:34 PM PST by blam
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When Humboldt rounded the tip of South America he said that he encountered two different people. One was short, stocky and wore few clothes and made their living from the sea. The other was tall, lanky, wore animal skins and made their living off the land.
I add this because he said the short people tied their boats off shore in the kelp fields and swam ashore. The shore lines were to jagged and rough to dock boats.
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posted on
02/20/2006 3:32:37 PM PST
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blam
To: SunkenCiv; Coyoteman
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posted on
02/20/2006 3:33:31 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
In the East Canadians followed the Kelp Highway to create their nation. This historic pathway starts in Newfoundland. From there they munched their way through perfectly edible Doultz down to Nova Scotia, to Prince Edward island, and on into Lower and Upper Canada, stopping finally at Lake Superior which has no kelp at all.
Today's modern Canadian is an example of what a diet rich in kelp can do to you.
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posted on
02/20/2006 3:39:34 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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To: blam
[Humboldt] said the short people tied their boats off shore in the kelp fields and swam ashore. Blam, that is quite interesting! Do you happen to have a reference -- or should I go a-Googling...?
BTW, it's been a while since I thanked you for all your history and prehistory posts -- so Thank You!!!
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posted on
02/20/2006 3:42:40 PM PST
by
TXnMA
(TROP: Satan's most successful earthly venture...)
To: TXnMA
"Do you happen to have a reference -- or should I go a-Googling...?" I don't remember where I read that...so, go googling. Humboldt also said that the women were in charge of the boats and were the ones who retrieved the boats in the kelp forest and brought them to shore for the men. He assumed that was because the women had more fat and could handle the cold better than the men.
That may have been in C.D. Darlington's 1969 book titled: The Evolution Of Man And Society, but, I'm not sure.
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02/20/2006 3:50:15 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
I think too that it's always been a human attribute to wonder what lies just over the horizon.
...And then the horizon from there....
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posted on
02/20/2006 3:53:48 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: blam
Why does everybody automatically assume the ONLY route to North and South America was by some coastal route that followed the Bering Strait when it was a land bridge? Genotypes include individuals that were clearly similar to Polynesian islanders, and share some of the distinctive genetic makeup. Others look much like Northern Europeans, which brings up the possibility that Leif Ericsson was NOT the first to reach the banks of Nova Scotia. The Ojibway people are quite unlike their neighbors, the Dakotah, and spoke a very different language.
There is no "typical" Indian appearance. Eastern woodlands Indians were very unlike western Plains Indians, and the Mississippian culture had little in common with that of the Northwest in Washington State or British Columbia.
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posted on
02/20/2006 4:01:11 PM PST
by
alloysteel
(Ask all your friends, "Would you want the junior Senator from New York to be your mother-in-law?")
To: alloysteel
"The Ojibway people are quite unlike their neighbors, the Dakotah, and spoke a very different language." The Ojibway have the highest percent of the so-called 'European gene X' than all other Indians in the Americas.
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02/20/2006 4:06:54 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
To: blam
I'd like to know which land animals eat kelp.
My horse won't touch the stuff.
To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; asp1; ...
Hey, at least it wasn't a "Hershey Highway".
Cradle of Chocolate?
by Roger Segelken
Oct. 8, 1998
Digging through history to a time before agriculture, archaeologists from Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley have found evidence of a village that was continuously occupied from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1000 as well as hints to the secret of the community's remarkable longevity.
"My guess is, it all comes down to chocolate," says John S. Henderson, professor of anthropology at Cornell and co-director, together with Rosemary Joyce of Berkeley, of the archaeological dig at Puerto Escondido, Honduras. The type of ceremonial pottery uncovered by the archaeologists points to that region of Mesoamerica as a possible "Cradle of Chocolate."
Thanks Blam.
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posted on
02/20/2006 6:28:43 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. (Longfellow))
To: blam
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02/20/2006 8:20:06 PM PST
by
Dustbunny
(Islam is not a religion it is a CULT whose leader is Satan.)
To: SunkenCiv
True, sounds very feasible. Amend the social studies curricula now!
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02/20/2006 11:19:07 PM PST
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Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
To: blam; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus; dighton; martin_fierro
Ancient People Followed 'Kelp Highway' To America How did they remain motivated enough to continue? Did they see weed?
Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high...
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posted on
02/20/2006 11:26:10 PM PST
by
Thinkin' Gal
(As it was in the days of NO...)
To: blam
Sounds like they were simply following the food. If they were not agricultural peoples, they'd have to get their food from hunting or fishing. These folks were near to water, so fishing or hunting maritime creatures makes perfect sense.
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posted on
02/20/2006 11:36:24 PM PST
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SuziQ
To: Thinkin' Gal; blam; Lijahsbubbe; dighton; martin_fierro
Ancient People Followed 'Kelp Highway' To America How did they remain motivated enough to continue?
Burma-Shave signs.
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posted on
02/21/2006 4:20:55 AM PST
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aculeus
To: blam
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posted on
02/21/2006 4:47:46 AM PST
by
shuckmaster
(An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns)
To: aculeus
Maybe it's all just as simple as they were sick and tired of eating at the in-laws, Grog couldn't keep his hands off his little sister, and grandpa discovered how to make shine and thought it was a gift from the great earth mother. If you lived around a bunch of artsy-fartsy painters and thought that it was a gay way to make a living, your job could take you anywhere you wanted to go but there, and you were starting to stress about the monotony of the daily grinding bowl, why not look to new adventure elsewhere? Why does it have to be a scientific reason? Don't we sometimes just get tired of living somewhere and uproot the whole family to go west? Seems to be a typical trait of ours that got most of our grandparents here, why should it be any different for them?
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02/21/2006 5:32:42 AM PST
by
DavemeisterP
(It's never too late to be what you might have been....George Elliot)
To: DavemeisterP
Exactly. Here's another: folks in AA relate how frequently they uprooted their families in an attempt to apply the "geographic cure" to their addiction. Could explain why Amerindians were devastated by booze once the Euros caught up with them and started pouring the firewater.
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posted on
02/21/2006 8:10:15 AM PST
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aculeus
To: Ciexyz
The path followed is even deeper, since the ocean levels were hundreds of feet lower.
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02/21/2006 9:32:12 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. (Longfellow))
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