China: Archeologists shake up history(Jinsha Ruins, Sanxingdui Culture)

Taipei Times ^ | 07/13/05

[blam]

" wouldn't call them "stay at home," though, since it's pretty hard to ignore black african influences in the New World (the Olmecs and all). They got around, but their voyages were relatively recent."

This is probably some of the 250,000 Shang who 'took to the sea' at the collapse of the Shang Dynasty. My guess is that these are the elites and skilled from the Shang Dynasty...notice that one of the first things they did was build a pyramid.

The Olmec And The Shang

[blam]

Oops. Post #61 is for you too.

[mercy]

Well it is plain to me that the reaces of mankind are one specie offshooting from a common ancestor. Where we went wrong in our the0rizing was the timeline. It is becomming clearer of recent that Homo sapiens has been around a lot longer than we once thought. By a factor of say .... 10 or so. Thus time is found for the wide diversification of the races we see today.

I believe as well it is no accident that the Story of Noah allows for one common ancestor. Just as it is no accident that the ancient Hebrew texts speak of the circles of heaven in the same epoch that Hindus believed the earth was balanced on the backs of four celestial elephants and thousands of years before the great thinkers of the West were sure the earth was flat.

[ApplegateRanch]

but what about the CDs?

You mean those thin, round, shiny objects, with the hole in the center?

Some schools believe they were used as money, since they come in at least three distinct and uniform sizes, though this theory is losing ground

The theory that they were worn as jewelry was quickly discarded.

The most viable theory is that they were ritual objects. Because so many are found in various containers (so called "jewel cases") that vary both in elaborateness and number held (one/case being the most common, though sometimes as many as three); and because many have been found inserted into primitive 'electronic' devices, we feel they were a way of attempting to communicate with the 'gods', akin to our ancestors' use of prayer wheels.

There is still a major controversy over whether or not the larger, more primitive hole-less disks (some of which are embossed with the enigmatic inscription "Frisbee") are related; precursors; contemporaneous; or totally unrelated.

[eamadia]

China

Egypt

Rome

Maya

Sanxingdui

Alien

Yoda

[shuckmaster]

So, Elvis came from Rome?

[warchild9]

I'm afraid that I, personally, put the story of Noah and those in the Upanishads in with Zacharia Sitchen's.

Real science will reveal the truth.

And whether we've been around for, say, 15,000,000 years or more...well, read Michael Cremo's books for that sort of theory. He's a Western Hindu who believes mankind has been around for 100,000,000 years, as the Hindu texts teach. His evidence is scant, but interesting.

[elli1]

Incredible stuff, Tiger.

[Renfield]

Heck, most of the coastal Southeast would depopulate if air conditioning became unavailable. If I can't have air conditioning, I'm moving to a mountain top in Alberta.

[Dustbunny]

Ping !!

[billl]

very cool stuff.
this is a museum i'd like to see someday.
does that face look at bit polynesian to you?
sort of tiki bar-ish?

maybe these guys were part of the culture that went across the pacific but lost out locally to the northerners.

[SunkenCiv]

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