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Sinkhole Holds 12,000-Year-Old Clues to Early Americans
nationalgeographic ^ | February 18, 2009 | Willie Drye

Posted on 02/19/2009 3:15:45 PM PST by JoeProBono

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Earlier this year, students working in a Florida sinkhole (inset) found the remains of a gourd that probably was used as a canteen by an ancient hunter about 8,000 or 9,000 years ago, according to researchers. These remains and others found at the site come from the earliest known period of human activity in the Western Hemisphere, added the underwater archaeology team exploring the site.

1 posted on 02/19/2009 3:15:45 PM PST by JoeProBono
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Is this about the stimulus plan?


2 posted on 02/19/2009 3:16:47 PM PST by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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Seems reasonable


3 posted on 02/19/2009 3:18:48 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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4 posted on 02/19/2009 3:20:38 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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5 posted on 02/19/2009 3:22:52 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: SunkenCiv

/mark


6 posted on 02/19/2009 3:28:36 PM PST by KoRn (Autumn Has Come To The Tree of Liberty)
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To: JoeProBono

Items recovered included McDonald’s straw wrappers, a few loose french fries and 17 cents in change.


7 posted on 02/19/2009 3:32:54 PM PST by relictele
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come on man! LOL!!


8 posted on 02/19/2009 3:33:48 PM PST by peace with honor
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9 posted on 02/19/2009 3:38:33 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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What do they do with sinkhole homes?


10 posted on 02/19/2009 4:37:14 PM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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11 posted on 02/19/2009 4:42:38 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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12 posted on 02/19/2009 4:42:38 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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aren’t there some more of these?

Going Into The Water:
A Survey Of Impact Events And The Coastal Peoples Of South-East North America
Cambridge Conference Network | 1-09-2002
Posted on 01/17/2002 4:08:32 PM PST by blam
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Life Existed 9,000 Years Ago (Florida, 12,000 YO Artifacts)
Sun Herald | 8-15-2007
Posted on 08/19/2007 5:35:45 PM PDT by blam
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13 posted on 02/23/2009 11:54:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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14 posted on 02/23/2009 11:54:25 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Just fascinating.


15 posted on 02/23/2009 1:25:30 PM PST by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! + In this sign Conquer! +)
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The early ones kept fallin’ in the sinkhole, so there’s probably like six thousand years’ worth of their remains down there. ;’)


16 posted on 02/23/2009 1:30:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Flee from them?


17 posted on 02/23/2009 2:28:11 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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I should have archaeologists take a look in my attic.

This [log] house was built in the 1700s and I don’t think any of the occupants ever cleaned out the attic.

There are literally layers of junk....uh...”artifacts” piled up from 2 centuries.
The task of *finally* clearing it all out is mind numbing.

[really, I’m just trying to get somebody to clean it out for me for free...the day a large mummified mystery rodent fell onto my head pretty much killed my desire to do it]....;-D


18 posted on 02/23/2009 2:38:09 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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Maybe a vole. Was it about the size of a hamster?


19 posted on 02/23/2009 2:59:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: relictele

“Croatoan” was carved into all of the fries.


20 posted on 02/23/2009 7:21:53 PM PST by bannie
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