Posted on 04/19/2010 12:04:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
(April 18) -- The popular American myth of the "noble savage" -- perpetuated by novelists, painters, elementary schoolteachers and James Cameron alike -- holds that the original inhabitants of this continent were shining paragons of living in harmony with Mother Nature.
But archaeology, and history, tell a different story: that Native Americans before 1492 seemed to be, well, people.
Courtesy Gregory Springer, Ohio University This stalagmite, found in a West Virginia cave, showed a major change in the area's local ecosystem at about 100 B.C. The latest evidence for this comes from scientists at Ohio University, who have made a startling connection between Native Americans and something we tend to think of as a modern industrial problem: climate change. In fact, their analysis of a stalagmite in West Virginia suggests that Native Americans were making a less than trivial contribution to greenhouse gases long before the first mills started appearing in 19th-century America.
The researchers' chemical analysis of the stalagmite pointed to a major change in the local ecosystem around 100 B.C., which piqued their interest because archaeologists had found evidence of a Native American community in the area about 2,000 years ago.
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So global warming ISN’T George Bush’s fault?
I thought stalagmites pointed at the ceiling.
Slash and burn agronomy.................
How many people have the Native Americans killed, and continue to kill, with tobacco through heart-attacks, emphysema, lung cancer, high blood pressure, etc.?
At least they didn’t pay taxes...
Does this mean that EPA can get reparations for damages for us from Native Americans for what their ancestors did to our green earth, causing this accrued global warming and trying to make us green slaves??
ONE MUST BE CERTIFIABLY INSANE TO BUY INTO GLOBULL WARMING.
LLS
The natives probably had a pictograph on the bottom of every pouch they traded. It showed a stick figure stuffing leaves into a pipe, next the stick figure showed him lighting the pipe, next stick figure should him coughing up a lung, and the last stick figure showed him at a burial ceremony. You just didn’t turn the tobacco pouch over and gazed at the bottom for the Medicine Man’s warning on the hazards of smoking the peace pipe.
Then the Lawyers showed up and everything went to hades.
I once had some dumbshite New Ager go on about how noble and pure the American indians were before the white man came and how we should all live like that. After listening to his drivel for a few minutes, I interrupted and said, “Excuse me. Two words. Modern dentistry.”
His response was that theirteeth were perfect. Wrongo, I said. Archeological evidence says just the opposite, and that in fact many accounts of madness and bizzarre behavior could be attributed to the pain and misery of bad teeth.
Confronted with facts, he huffed away.
ping
Hmmm. Somehow, a part of the anatomy other than foot comes to mind . . . .
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