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"One woman was clearly European, while a second seems to have been a Taino, because of her culturally shaped skull, modified by cradle-boarding in childhood. "

I was ignorant of Columbus taking European women on the voyage.

1 posted on 03/09/2009 8:01:59 AM PDT by BGHater
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To: SunkenCiv

Columbus ping.


2 posted on 03/09/2009 8:02:19 AM PDT by BGHater (Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
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To: BGHater

3 posted on 03/09/2009 8:30:22 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: BGHater
but there was no sign of syphilis or yaws: if any of the settlers had acquired such diseases, they had not yet progressed enough to show in the bones.

Interesting.

5 posted on 03/09/2009 9:55:24 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Train relentlessly, fight hard, kill without remorse.)
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