Posted on 08/15/2025 8:35:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 1985, a unique skull was discovered lying on Yamana Beach at Cape Shirreff in Antarctica's South Shetland Islands. It belonged to an indigenous woman from southern Chile in her early 20s, thought to have died between 1819 and 1825. It was the oldest known human remains ever found in Antarctica.
The location of the discovered skull was unexpected. It was found at a beach camp made by sealers in the early 19th Century near remnants of her femur bone, yet female sealers were unheard of at the time. There are no surviving documents explaining how or why a young woman came to be in Antarctica during this era. Now, at nearly 200 years old, the skull is thought to align with the beginning of the first known landings on Antarctica.
The Yamana Beach skull was a significant find -- and not just for archaeological reasons. In 30 years' time, bones such as these may come into play in territorial claims for this pristine wilderness. Nations are quietly -- and sometimes not so quietly -- preparing to stake their rights as the owners of swathes of the nearly uninhabitable land.
"Lots of people just don't understand that there's a darker side to Antarctica," says Klaus Dodds, professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London. "What we're seeing is great power politics play out in a space that a lot of people think of as just frozen wastes."
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Deep subject ...
Now that's just being unreasonable.
Translation - the men wanted the “services” of women and now others are turning it into something else....
Thanks.
I agree. There’s an ancient wreck in the Bay of Jars, that doesn’t mean the post-1492 claims are suddenly invalid.
I think the treaty will be renewed and that it won’t be altered much. I have a all kinds of confidence in our ability to drill for oil, and almost as much in our ability to get the oil to market from there, but unless there’s a huge rise in the price of it, it won’t be economical.
Definitely. She was probably basically the servant of whalers and died of natural causes, and was covered with whatever snow and ice could be chipped out to cover her.
I'd be very surprised if there aren't any prediscovery [sic] undocumented shipwrecks offshore (or onshore) in the Antarctic.
I've often wondered if this bit of Herodotus referred to calving icebergs off Antarctica as this expedition headed south along the east coast of Africa.
The History of Herodotus | Book I. The First Book of the Histories, Called Clio | Translated Into English by G. C. Macaulay | Project Gutenberg Ebook 2707Therefore passing these by I shall make mention of the king who came after these, whose name was Sesostris. He (the priests said) first of all set out with ships of war from the Arabian gulf and subdued those who dwelt by the shores of the Erythraian Sea, until as he sailed he came to a sea which could no further be navigated by reason of shoals...
That is what I was thinking. And perhaps they were brought there against their will. Bought as slaves?
Somebody had to iron their shirts....
Maybe she was a woman pretending to be a man.
Modern “woke” historians will claim this - so then the LGBTQ population will have a claim on the land.
Cthulhu off limits too?
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Of course not!
Nice!
( when Cthulhu calls, let the machine pick up)
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Yay!
/watches The Dunwich Horror at least 4 times a year….Willlllbur!
Y’all posted that right on top of each other.
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Woah.. noway. Cool. keep rocking.
His call came in as a fax signal. lol. The machine picked it up. :)
They are not banned.
The NFL just won’t be paying for them.
Players can still purchase and use them on their own dime.............
“...It was found at a beach camp made by sealers in the early 19th Century near remnants of her femur bone...”
Camp Follower..................
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