Posted on 02/22/2014 3:38:46 AM PST by Makana
In an announcement likely to rewrite the book on early colonization of the New World, two researchers have proposed a location for the oldest fortified settlement ever found in North America.
They believe that the legendary Fort Caroline, a long-sought fort built by the French in 1564, is located near the mouth of the Altamaha River in southeast Georgia.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Not only that, his explanation was wrong.
To wit:
The real, 100% genuine Rosetta Stone is a company that uses disgustingly repititious TV commercials to peddle over-hyped, virtually useless language-learning software!
Isn’t Mexico part of North America?....Mexico has the ruins of fortified settlements dating back at least 6000 years
ST Johns, New Foundland was settled in 1497.
The Spanish had a Mission in the St. Catherine’s area here in Georgia in 1521. I have held (ok it was in a box and I held the box) an authenticated 1524 Spanish Coin found in Liberty Co, Ga about 20 years ago.
If interested in the topic, look up works by David Hurst Thomas. He found and excavated the Mission from the early 1500 and wrote a several books about it (I got him to sign them the same day as the coin).
The Georgia coast is full of history. This is just one more star.
Everybody knows what Rosetta Stone is.
It’s a foreign language program advertised on late night TV. Comes on CD’s.
“...men and women who created and owned the place...”
“They didn’t build that.”
Fort King George is located at the mouth of that Delta in Darien.
In October of 2008, I was traveling back to Florida from New Jersey, by boat. I went up that river (Altamaha) and docked at the “Two Way Marina”. Talk about going back in time. It looked like something out of “Deliverance”. The current really runs thru there and loaded with mud. Also, there is about an eight foot, tidal drop. I was glad to clear that place and continue on to Florida the next morning.
What is FFV?
Nevermind, I figured it out!
Yes, a social club so exclusive that, from what I understand, the one sure way to guarantee that one will never be invited to join is to give the impression that one wishes to be invited.
No more troubling than the Jamestown Settlement which preceded Plymouth by 15 years.
Better make sure that there are plenty of fast food places around for them to spend the money they say they don't have. All the ones around here stand around with food from McD's, Carls,etc.
Years ago I was with a friend that rolled up some of these workers at a H.D. to get some help around his house. He asked them how much an hour and they said $15, he told them they were nuts our company didn't pay it's helpers that much. We had to leave because they were getting threatening. Insane, they wanted $15 dollars untaxed, just people trying to make an honest living my a$$!
That map of the Florida/ Georgia coast appears bogus.
There was no known longitudes for North America until the invention of the chronometer. Your map shows longitude lines
Dear noob,
the map is not “bogus.
It is overlain with modern points of identification for clarity.
If you look closely, it is also overlain with the locations of current day
Hilton Head, Tybee, Sapelo, St. Simons, Jekyll, Cumberland, and Amelia Islands.
Welcome!
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Yeah, but what's the point if he doesn't also explain what hieroglyphics are?
-PJ
Jamestown preceded Plymouth by a dozen years anyway.
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