Posted on 09/19/2005 4:36:30 PM PDT by blam
Boats?
Yup. Couldn't build boats or paddles to go fishing and couldn't cook the fish once caught. Drift wood must have been very valuable.
No timber, no boats.
Don't know about you, but I never caught much in the surf.
"I wonder if they will figure out how the people got there in the first place."
After that Tsunami, they found a guy drifting on a coconut tree thousands of miles from where he started. He lived on the coconuts!
"It will also eventually help scientists and governments develop better population management skills"
Sounds like the 2000 had no clue about planting new trees, farming or fishing. The 20% of their 10,000 were not the doers, but the welfare types of their culture I guess.
well said, indeed re: the Vikings.
I have a hard time reducing the investigating of ancient civilizations to a mathematical equation, seems so cold...but then again, I'm no scientist, just an amateur interested in these things.
Stuff happens!
Then there was a famine in 1811/12 in the far North, and that population crashed ~ thousands of people moved South or to America. Later on there were more widespread droughts that affected most or all of Europe, and more tens of thousands of people moved out, or died.
The 19th Century saw several serious depopulation events in Europe.
In the end we find 90% of the descendants of the populations located in the Celtic Fringe in America, Canada, South America or Australia. Half the people of Swedish ancestry live in the United States, mostly in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Washington The Danes moved to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois (to raise pigs). Probably a full third of the Germans in this world reside in the American Midwest and Pennsylvania.
This fellow's mathematics will probably prove useful in determining what percentages of a population have to be under stress from inadequate food to decide to emigrate.
Brudder bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime,
His sister had anudder one she paid it for a lime.
She put de lime in de coconut, she drank 'em bot' up
She put de lime in de coconut and called de doctor, woke 'im up.
And said, "Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take?'
I said, "Doctor, to relieve this belly ache."
I said "Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take?"
I said, "Doctor, now lemme get this straight,
You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em bot'up,
Put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em bot' up,
Put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em bot' up,
Put the lime in the coconut. You're such a silly woman.
I don't think they can figure out how they transported and erected the huge stone heads, let alone determine the nature of the civilization. He/they may be right about the eventual outcome, however, as their society may have de-evolved over time and they lost their technology.
Harri Seldon has been born.
Whats so hard to figure it out. Its simple. The Liberals took over. This has been shown time & time again.
The Vikings colonized the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland, founded Dublin, and conquered the Isle of Man and the Hebrides and Orkneys. They didn't conquer all of France or Italy, but they did rule Normandy and southern Italy and Sicily. The settlements on Greenland eventually died out, about 500 years after they were started (longer than any English-speaking communities have existed in North America). And they did this all without coffee or chocolate.
A high probability explanation.
Maybe the doers evacuated when they saw the impending disaster.
Yes, they probably saw you couldn't change the welfare types and rather risk life on the water in search of new land than face the criminal activity of those they left behind.
Could be, we don't know.
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