History Forum / General / Archaeology / May 2007

Southern California find, one point, puts itself between the coastal
migration theory and the "modified" Clovis migration. The article says
the  point itself has been auth­enticated by Dr. Dennis Stanford, the
director of the Paleo­in­dian/ Paleoecology Program at the Smithsonian

That was in Precolumbian days. That's a bit odd since cats, observe not
lions or tigers, are known in Old World, Africa Europe and Asia, for 5000
years to have been domesticated (if any cat ever understood that, is an
other question....)

Aka cougar, mountain lion.  Puma is the Quechua word for cougar. That is,
the Inca word.
She evidently found a cat fanciers site that said the Inca revered sacred
cats and decided that showed European influence. An indication of the

I will be entering 11th grade next year, and my latin teacher was
explaining to us about the various archaeological digs that go on
around the world that a person could join. I would like to kno of any
that are happening this summer that I could perhaps join (that is

Low-energy protons in the Viking explorations could have transformed
space-borne carbon compounds into the seeds of life on Earth. A simulation
of the young solar system suggests that the interaction of Viking protons
with interplanetary dust containing anthracene produced ...

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Vinland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas#Vinland
L'Anse aux Meadows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows

Just found this link:
http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs215a1v,0,656898.story
to a 1910 translation of Giovanni da Verrazano's Report to Francis 1,
July 8, 1524, The History of the Dauphine and Its Voyage, in full.

Dear Ladies & Gentlemen of the Planet Earth,
Besides my well known outstanding discoveries in Mining Exploration &
following development of the True Geology, I have discovered as well
some amazing understanding re. Agriculture,  Medecine & Physics as

A HISTORY OF SHAMANISM?: In brief, shamanism is a belief in and
practice of the regulation of human affairs through the powers of the
supernatural world through one who has access at a high level to both.
The following abbreviations are used: AFR = Africa; EA = Eurasia; P =

in the second half of this year China will launch its first lunar
orbiter, the Chang'e-I:
http://www.moondaily.com/reports/First_China_Mission_To_Moon_To_Launc...
it would be interesting to have further data about the MAX OPTICAL

As part of his thesis project to get his doctorate from the University
of Bonn, Dominique Görlitz will set sail in July from New Jersey on
the reed boat, Abora III, and he hopes to make landfall first in Spain
and then in North Africa. He estimates that the trip will take about

Prerelease of what's to be presented at tomorrow's AGU meeting,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6676461.stm and
http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm07/sm07-sessions/sm07_PP43A.html
It will be interesting to see if the evidence sticks for a comet

Brought to you courtesy of
Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud
Australia Mining Pioneer.
Science Alert Australia & New Zealand

Anyway, I am just off to the La Rochelle market with organic potatoes
at 1 € pr kg, beautiful lettuces at 1.5 € for two (  all of what I
buying is organic of course ), 5 kg of nice apples for 6 €,  and also
strawberries, cabbages, new onions, peas, persil galore at very