Archaeologica.org

This is a generalization, but In Europe , US "corn" is called maize.
European "Corn" is US wheat sometimes.

Could be a translation error.
Or maybe just a mistake, like saying further down that Pompeii was covered in lava. It was ash, not lava.

Here's one of the artifacts: ah a fluent spanish speaker the caption accompanying this picture stated Quote: las esculturas que muestran rasgos de la cultura olmeca son personajes desnudos sentados con las piernas cruzadas y los brazos al frente indico el which means characteristic Olmec sculptures...

Here's one of the artifacts:

Here are some interesting photos of a "prehistoric shark" rarely seen alive.
from National Geographic. Maybe this belongs on the evolution thread.




http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... photo.html

Minimalist wrote:

The Gulf Stream has dipped down to Arizona

pretty funny when you think about it....

I'll just say a couple of obvious things about "smelting." A big forest fire could have resulted in heat sufficient to "melt rocks." and someone may have observed this and put 2 and 2 together. Same for the observation of volcanic activity? Lightning? Also for the burning of coal...

Forum Monk, thanks for providing those links on early
primates. More stuff to scratch my head about.
I liked the second link a lot...it puts things in perspective.

Stan

But really...isn't this the only primate fossil found in NA?
Is it the ancestor of Lucy, et. al.?

Some guy named Ignacius Clarkforken.

Isn't the only primate from North America?
(Excpet for Bigfoot?)

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 012307.php

So man evolved out of Wyoming?

Sounds like a pretty good debunking to me.

that's cool, C-S.

Yes, Marduk, they were in very different situations. As I said, I hadn't read the Melungian story yet. But a lot of the Germans here did not anglicize their names, inspite of international events. Propst, Schultz, Wilhelm, Prim, and many more. The Germans assimilated and intermarried pretty thorough...

ok now i've read this great article posted by Monk.
Seems convincing to me! Thanks, Monk.

http://www.mediamonitors.net/brentkennedy1.html

I haven't looked into the melungians yet, although I have heard of them, since I live in NC. Just a comment on language preservation. In the mid 18th century thousands of Germans migrated south out of Pennsylvaniainto the Virginia, NC, and SC piedmont and highlands. BUt NO one speaks German there an...