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Diving to Prove Indians Lived on the Continental Shelf
The New York Times ^
| July 29, 2003
| ROBERT HANLEY
Posted on 07/30/2003 4:51:48 PM PDT by sarcasm
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posted on
07/30/2003 4:51:48 PM PDT
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sarcasm
To: blam
ping
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posted on
07/30/2003 4:52:19 PM PDT
by
sarcasm
(Tancredo 2004)
To: sarcasm
Indians lived 6,000 to 10,000 years ago on the exposed continental shelf before it was inundated by water from melting glaciersYou mean to tell me we've had global warming for the last 10,000 years? Why aren't we dead yet?
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posted on
07/30/2003 4:54:05 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(IYAOYAS)
To: sarcasm
Thanks, amigo.
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posted on
07/30/2003 4:55:02 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
"Ms. Merwin and a dozen undergraduate students in underwater archaeology plan to dive in 30 to 60 feet of water in search of the clues on the Atlantic Ocean floor. The good stuff will be found 300-500 feet down.
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posted on
07/30/2003 4:57:52 PM PDT
by
blam
To: aomagrat
I want to know whose SUVs caused the glaciers to melt?
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posted on
07/30/2003 4:59:06 PM PDT
by
azcap
To: farmfriend; RightWhale; JudyB1938
Ping. No GGG.
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posted on
07/30/2003 4:59:52 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Anytime.
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posted on
07/30/2003 5:01:05 PM PDT
by
sarcasm
(Tancredo 2004)
To: sarcasm
They'll be either plumb lucky or extremely inspired to find a site that isn't silted so deep they can find anything over 100-200 years old. They will have to go out where it's 200 feet deep to go back to Ice Age stuff. Most of the rise in sea level took place right at the end of the Ice Age.
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posted on
07/30/2003 5:07:24 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: sarcasm
Not a bad timeline for the Biblical Flood....
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posted on
07/30/2003 5:13:01 PM PDT
by
Milwaukee_Guy
(The Law of Unintended Consequences - No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished.)
To: blam
"The good stuff will be found 300-500 feet down."I had the same thought, and I'm amazed that someone else had it also. I shouldn't be, because FR has always been a meeting place for thinkers.
To back up your statement, the rate of silting and sand deposition over the last 5000 or so years is probably enormous, especially in areas of the ocean close to shore, as this one is.
That said, I wish this team luck, because I suspect that the theory is correct.
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posted on
07/30/2003 5:25:06 PM PDT
by
yooper
To: yooper
"I had the same thought, and I'm amazed that someone else had it also." Nah, this is fun, easy stuff. I actually have a theory that the Gulf Of Mexico was blocked off from the worlds oceans during the Ice Age
Look at this map here, it shows the whole world with the ocean levels lowered by about 300 feet. Some things to notice, no Persian Gulf, land locked Red Sea, the Mediterranean is in three sections, Japan and Korea is attached, etc.
Now, reduce that on down by another 200 feet (many believe the oceans were lowered by 500 feet) and imagine the result.
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07/30/2003 5:43:30 PM PDT
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blam
To: yooper
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posted on
07/30/2003 5:48:20 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam; FreeLibertarian; lizma; Notforprophet; Rutabega; shamusotoole
Gods, Graves, Glyphs List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:23:19 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: sarcasm
If it's anything like the shelf off Bradley Beach, New Jersey, she may expect to find a tennis shoe, 8 hypodermic needles, a staph infection, and two weighted cadavers. None of this will be more ancient, however, than 1950 CE.
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:24:10 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.blogspot.com/)
To: aomagrat
Yeah. Global warming from all those camp fires the Indians lit.
Just more evidence that humans MUST be eradicated from the Face of the Earth.
Except for my Family.
<"/Sarcasm OFF">
To: Amelia
Interesting.
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:34:33 PM PDT
by
Scenic Sounds
(Next year, the President will be re-elected but good!)
To: blam
The fact that they might have lived there when it was dry is kind of a yawner... Now, if they lived there while there was 30-60 feet of water, that's another thing ;)
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:44:06 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Chain mail...check. Kevlar vest...Check. Leather Gloves...Check. Begin running the cats bathwater...)
To: RightWhale
They really should have found a way to get some sonar equipment to locate promising sites first. Even some USGS low resolution sonar images like this would be better than nothing:
To: sarcasm
I'm not sure if looking off Sandy Hook is the best place since the sand shifts around so much and melt currents from the Raritan Valley might have blown things out deeper. But that's just south of where the glaciers stopped (the Watchung Mountains and Long Island) so there might still be something there. What I'm really interested in is the chance of finding evidence of occupation older than 12,000 years, suggesting a pre-Clovis migration from Europe or across North America from Asia.
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