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This is one of my favorite subjects! I am into surfing and kayaking, and I grew up in southwestern Turkey. Last winter I did a quick check with google earth, and at today's water levels, a fit person could easily reach Crete in a dug out canoe from southwestern Turkey (About Bodrum) via several isla...

Damn! you must be the last two guys in the world who have not sex the sex tape!

About the Lanapes "owning" Manhattan....The story I heard was that they were just visiting the island. It was traditionally the territory of another tribe... As far as the Elgins go, I agree they were acquired legally, and that probably would not have survived, or at least not as well, in ...

BBQ is pretty much the only thing I ever missed about the south.

"Between 1 and 4 per cent of the DNA of modern non-Africans is of Neanderthal origin" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028073.400-neanderthals-bad-luck-and-its-part-in-their-downfall.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news So I guess that Neanderthal and human interbreeding is now ...

One good thing about the San Joaquin Valley is the mountain range between us and the coast

Yes!

The water coming out of the spring has been underground in the Floridan Aquaifer for thousands of years

Maybe somone dropped the spear off his surfboard.

But the springs do have fish in them.

I have been diving in many of them

The water coming out of the spring on the bottom might not have OX, but the surface water does support fish.

At least this matches Plato's description:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42072469/ns ... e-science/

I have always been a Santorini fan, but tis matches Plato's description much better

Good Question Gunny! The natives certainly had the sheer numbers, but maybe the natives had a tradition of one on one ritual combat for glory and honor. The guy with the wooden club with obsidian teeth was just no match for the guy with the steel armor, helmet, sword, and steel tipped lance, even on...

I was going to rename this thread topic:

"Surfers Discover Amereica - 10,000 BC"

For those who do not know, launching boats from the beach in California is going to involve surfing back in. http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/03/2011/late-pleistocene-sea-going-people-may-have-followed-a-kelp-highway "Rising seas also may have submerged evidence of even older huma...

This board is not only private, its not commercial. Its only here by Michele's generosity, and hard work.

Once again, my thanks

This proves my theory that they came on surf boards from Ephesus

I like boats, and surf boards!