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Those are good, Charlie.
Your "in situ" pictures of the first specimen show better than any before how your finds are distinguished from the surrounding ordinary water-worn rocks.

There's a flood of new stuff being dug up everywhere, faster than we can assimilate it. Not only the finds themselves, but their ramifications, and then on top of that, new techniques such as:::


The business of dating by starch grains....

alas, another tantalizing article with no visuals.

Way to go, Beagle. Be sure to take sunscreen
and deet.

it would be exciting to see those artifacts up close, or even hold one in your hand.

Last year or year before a teenager I know went down there
and volunteered for a week. In addition to all the fun down in the
digs, there are the mosqitoes and 90+degree temperatures. However, she was also taught how to
flint-knap, and made a few projectile points.

Who's going to translate them for us???

I don't know why anyone would have assumed that the Inca and Aztecs were responsible for the rise of agriculture in the Americas, since they were the most modern of the indigenous cultures...whereas we know now there there were cities/civiliaztions a couple of millennia before those two.

I think he's referring to air pollution. Particles are removed from the air by rain, or by settling to the ground, or other ways I don't know about.. For example the amount of nuclear fallout particles peaked in about 1963-65, when atmospheric testing was stopped. Since then there has been a precipi...

Good work, Charlie.

As i said in an earlier post, couldn't these ancient people have seen metals melted in the intense heat of forest fires, volcanic activity, or lightning strikes?
And aren't there sometimes veins or nuggets of pure metal in rocks, like gold?

Is that colette?

I'm just try to falsify the hypothesis that these tools were used for smelting iron.

Why? I'm confused.

I have heard there is a giant crater under the antarctic ice...but what is a "ring structure?"
Like Stonehenge?

Hey, Charlie. It looks to me as though the staining could have occurred before or after the making of the tool, depending on the piece. But honestly I can't tell. You've got the rocks, and I don't! :wink: Is there a smiley for envy? Forum Monk is right, it doens't necessarily take millennia to stain...