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To: SunkenCiv
There are burial sites on every continent, except Antarctica, where the ground surface makes burial practically impossible.

The absence of a population also makes burials a good deal less possible.

26 posted on 01/31/2006 10:41:56 AM PST by Restorer
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To: Restorer

Sure, now. ;') Any traces of ancient / prehistoric human habitation in Antarctica would pretty much have to be on the continental shelf, from the era when glaciation elsewhere caused sealevel to decline by hundreds of feet (perhaps as much as 800, that's about what it was in the Bering Strait). All other things being equal, it's warmer at lower altitude. Since ice has been flowing and falling off Antarctica for a couple million years or more, any such traces could very well have been blotted out.


27 posted on 01/31/2006 10:48:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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