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Workers Find Signs Of 7,500-Year-Old Civilization While Building Water Plant (Mass.)
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| 1-23-2004
| AP
Posted on 01/23/2004 12:33:33 PM PST by blam
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To: Coyoteman
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posted on
01/23/2004 5:04:31 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
We have hunted arrowheads in south Texas & Mexico for many years. I always get a feeling of awe when I pick up an arrowhead that someone made & used in that spot, thousands of years ago.
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posted on
01/23/2004 5:10:56 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: blam
Once when I lived in Arizona I visited Walnut Canyon where the Anastazi Indians lived as cliff dwellers as long ago as over 1,000 years ago, or longer. The adobe walls of the rooms in the cliffs bore the hand prints of the women who did the work. My hand fit right into her hand and it was an odd, and moving feeling to place my hand in a print that old. She had to be standing where I was standing and about my size. A sister, nameless that I will never forget.
To: Pablo64
You are almost right. Pi are round, & cornbread are square.
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posted on
01/23/2004 5:24:17 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: blam
....maybe it was a brewery?
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posted on
01/23/2004 5:34:27 PM PST
by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
To: Professional Engineer
ping
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posted on
01/23/2004 5:50:04 PM PST
by
msdrby
(US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
To: Ditter
True, true. I guess my momma always made sheet cakes (and darn good cornbread!) ;)
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posted on
01/24/2004 6:43:24 AM PST
by
Pablo64
("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
To: Coyoteman
"We have archaeological evidence from the Chumash area of habitation dated to 13,400 years ago. This was on Santa Rosa Island, off the Santa Barbara coast.
"
Yup. In the area where I live, Chumash habitations have been dated to 9000 years. Since there's a lot of erosion, there's a lot of surface material that is picked up by locals here. Styles of points have some pretty clear age links.
The most exciting find I'm aware of in the area happened in the back yard of close friends of mine. While they were digging a hole to plant a tree, they discovered a cache of amazing items, including a 14" long obsidian blade, some soapstone breastplates and tons of other amazing items, once the area was fully excavated. Since there is no obsidian here, with the closest source being in the Sierras, it was clear evidence of trade with the Sierra tribes.
I am constantly amazed to be walking in the area and find points and other items just sitting on top of the ground. My best find was a small group of charm stones, all clustered together. It looked to me like someone had dropped a bag full of them and there they sat, until the bag disintegrated.
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posted on
01/24/2004 8:50:10 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Indrid Cold
The Adena People"The Adena folk were unusually tall and powerfully built; women over six feet tall and men approaching heights of seven feet have been discovered. It would seem that a band of strikingly different people of great presence and majesty had forced their way into the Ohio Valley from somewhere about 1000 B.C. - Robert Silverberg "
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posted on
01/24/2004 8:53:27 AM PST
by
blam
To: Indrid Cold
Interesting !
I know some of the actual Indian tribes-notably the Mohawk and Susquehanna had exceptionally tall people-(estimates are just that,but 7' seems to have been pretty common for men,6' for women.) One visitor described their voices as very deep and resonant-like pipe organs.
In Patagonia ( a name that means "big feet" or big foot)there were giants,according to Portuguese explorers.The explorers did battle with some of them, and enslaved a few:intending to show them off in Europe,but they died during the voyage. This race of giants was said to be more "white" than the various Indians the explorers had encountered.
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posted on
01/24/2004 4:08:46 PM PST
by
genefromjersey
(So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
To: carpio
BTTT
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posted on
02/06/2004 5:58:13 PM PST
by
carpio
To: Indrid Cold
Thos tall ones were the Original Celtics.
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posted on
02/06/2004 6:06:11 PM PST
by
breakem
Not a ping, just a GGG update. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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posted on
01/05/2005 10:08:46 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(the US population in the year 2100 will exceed a billion, perhaps even three billion.)
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04/05/2006 11:51:20 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam
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10/20/2009 7:02:36 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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