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To: blam

> I’ve read recently that some believe Santorini may have been close to super-volcano status.
> I just completed reading the 1965 book Krakatoa and many first hand accounts...It was no picnic either.

Nor the Taupo explosion in NZ. There is one theory running around that New Zealand was, up until the Taupo explosion, settled by Phoenecians. The archaeologist is a neighbor of mine, and his findings are, on the surface, possible.


23 posted on 04/23/2007 9:06:37 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
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To: DieHard the Hunter
" There is one theory running around that New Zealand was, up until the Taupo explosion, settled by Phoenecians. The archaeologist is a neighbor of mine, and his findings are, on the surface, possible."

My neighbor is a 60 year old guy from NZ and he believes the same.

26 posted on 04/23/2007 9:33:01 PM PDT by blam
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Posted on FR seven years ago.

Celts before the Maoris????????

28 posted on 04/23/2007 9:35:47 PM PDT by blam
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New Lapita Find Re-dates Known Fiji Settlers (Jomon/Ainu)
29 posted on 04/23/2007 9:38:18 PM PDT by blam
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