Seafaring to Canada 16,000 BP

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:38 pm

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolo ... 51&k=39922

Published: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
In a Canadian archeological project that could revolutionize understanding of when and how humans first reached the New World, federal researchers in B.C. have begun probing an underwater site off the Queen Charlotte Islands for traces of a possible prehistoric camp on the shores of an ancient lake long since submerged by the Pacific Ocean.

HS seafaring to North America. Canada has taken up the search.

Barracuda · Post by **Barracuda** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:04 pm

I saw that. Very interesting.

I think this is a very good summary of the problems with ever documenting this:

The difficulty is that nearly all of the land that might contain traces of human settlement or activity -- the critical proof for archaeologists -- is now under water.

Not just under water, Under lots of very cold, very deep, very murky, water.

Here in Northern California, you can have a couple hundred feet of water under your hull, and only be a quarter mile offshore.

Farther north, water temps are so cold they require special diving gear.

The water visibility is not good anywhere in the these latitudes.

It would be a lot easier if we were looking in the warm, shallow, clear waters of the Caribbean

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:22 pm

Yeah, But dosn't some lady from Canada already have that gig tied up in hunting for Atlantis?

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:52 pm

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Not just under water, Under lots of very cold, very deep, very murky, water.

Here in Northern California, you can have a couple hundred feet of water under your hull, and only be a quarter mile offshore.

Farther north, water temps are so cold they require special diving gear.

The water visibility is not good anywhere in the these latitudes.

So don't go there.
Send Rovers, ROVs. With all the cameras, sensors and scanners and tweezers and grapplers you can think of. Hey, this is the 21st century! Apply!

We're sending one rover after another to Mars, for gossakes! That's 100 million miles away! How hard can 30 miles offshore be?
Time to pull some fingers out.

Sam Salmon · Post by **Sam Salmon** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:37 pm

One thing about cold water-items of interest often deteriorate slower than @ warmer temperatures.

Also it's not always necessary to dive/grope around by hand whilst searching.

In the past researchers have postulated settlements in certain places/ancient river mouths/beaches and doing a simple dig by remote control found ancient artifacts-this was in QCI as well.

OK the artifacts might be found not perfectly in situ but they are there.

Barracuda · Post by **Barracuda** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:33 pm

Money, Money, Money!

Remote control submarines are expensive!

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:23 pm

Barracuda wrote:Money, Money, Money!

Remote control submarines are expensive!

They sure are B'cuda, but I gather from the article that this project is federally funded. Those are deep pockets, especially if Canada doesn't manage it's money any better than the US congress.