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I'm out of here permanently now.

I can only hope that some august & exalted personage posts the shining truth here for unter Menschen like me-what other hope do I have?

Minimalist wrote:I suspect that the salt water will play hell with any organic remains they may find, though.

I thought that deeper water in the Black Sea was an anaerobic fresh water zone.

No?

And Yes I'm aware that salt is heavier than fresh I live on the shore of the Pacific.

I believe the proper term is 'bollocks'.

shawomet wrote:...The turf structure that partially surrounds the hearth is nothing like the shelters built by indigenous peoples... nor by Basque fishermen and whalers who arrived in the 16th century....

Basques were in Newfoundland a helluva lot earlier than the 16th century but by now it's all politics.

I do not know much about the Basque fishermen habits.Did they go ashore much?Were they bog iron users? They used temporary 'stages' (what we would call long racks) to dry split fish and built shacks to live in over the summer-eventually the British govt who claimed Newfoundland made it unlawful to ...

I'm sure we'd all love this to be Norse but caution is the byword- there were a lot of Basque fishermen in southern Newfoundland pre-Columbus.

In other Norse news I note that everyone seems to have forgotten about this evidence on far Baffin Island

When you constantly trot out information from sources who seem to get their inspiration from the Tin Foil enveloping their head you should expect it.....you have such an appalling track record of citing maniacs as your sources that it has become an immediate reaction. You have brought it on yoursel...

Springhead wrote:From a layman's perch I would question the effectiveness of a three foot tall barrier keeping in almost any domestic animal.

Sheep in particular were a lot smaller back then.

Minimalist wrote:Yes, but that would be one big corral...

Not a corral but a fence to stop semi domesticated herds from wandering in the 'wrong' direction.

For a clue look @ who those people were-pastoralists - those who's lives revolve around herding animals.

Minimalist wrote:Agree but only the crank stuff seems to generate any discussion at all.

If that's correct then Shut the Whole Thing Down.

Lily wrote:And it explains why rarely any new members sign up.
If Michelle and Minimalist don't take charge and weed out the vermin it'll be the deathknell of this place. It's gasping and heaving on life-support as it is.

Quite agree sad to say.

re: How The Pacific Was Settled

I'd read a summation of this article but it's a different more sensible piece of work in it's entirety and supports much of what I've observed visiting remote islands in the South Pacific.