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To: Texas Eagle
Dugouts? What about birch veneer/plywood bateaux from the Mississippi Valley?

They were making some good stuff back in the old days. The South Americans built substantial boats that enabled them to mount an invasion from what is now Venezuela to conquer Hispanola and other Caribbean islands just a few years before the arrival of the Spanish.

73 posted on 11/24/2005 6:03:19 PM PST by muawiyah (u)
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To: muawiyah
They were making some good stuff back in the old days. The South Americans built substantial boats that enabled them to mount an invasion from what is now Venezuela to conquer Hispanola and other Caribbean islands just a few years before the arrival of the Spanish.

Did they invent it on their own or, was it due to pre-Columbian Old World contact?

131 posted on 11/24/2005 6:47:59 PM PST by fso301
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*** The South Americans built substantial boats that enabled them to mount an invasion from what is now Venezuela to conquer Hispanola and other Caribbean islands just a few years before the arrival of the Spanish.***

Yes, those Caribe Indians developed quite a sweet tooth for Awark Indian flesh. They chased them all over the Carribian Islands, chowing down all the way.


139 posted on 11/24/2005 6:58:48 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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