Posted on 10/13/2003 12:26:57 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
Associated Press
KENANSVILLE — When workers digging up peat at a former central Florida sod farm unearthed human remains with their backhoe, they called the police. But this was a cold case that authorities were unlikely to solve.
The bones found Thursday appeared to be those of a young man who died in his late teens or early 20s about 4,800 years ago, said Anthony Falsetti, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida.
"It's quite significant because it ties into some earlier discoveries in the 1980s ... dating back to 8,000 years ago," Falsetti said Friday. "It continues to fill in the picture of early life ... in Florida."
The remains are being suspended in water at the lab, so they don't dry out and crumble into dust. Archaeologists will not photograph the bones, and he will not receive a nickname. Instead, the skeleton is designated as 10-B-03.
The Bureau of Archaeological Research in Tallahassee will survey the site where the remains were found for other signs of a past civilization. Animal bones designed in a decoration were also found with the remains discovered about 50 miles southeast of Orlando, Falsetti said.
After consulting with the two American Indian tribes of Florida, state archaeologist David Dickel said the bones were expected to be reburied in a private ceremony attended only by experts. There will be no marker, to thwart collectors and vandals.
"He lived in a simpler time with a simpler life, but this was no primitive," Dickel said. "Even though it's only bones, we think of it as a life."
Right, it would be like that.
Clearly. But these tribes want to keep their perks and New Age charisma as "native Americans." If they allow study of old bones someone might prove that Siberian Asians weren't here first. Thanks to Indian Casinos they also have potent political muscle -- did you follow their huge cash contributions in the CA governor's race?
Cherokees are a mixture of these refugees and Native American types. Heck, we have even have a mythic figure called Wotan. Probably the same as the European one. Both were considered culture bearers.
Sorry, no.
"Also, any new info on the underwater search near Cuba? I haven't seen anything for a while."
Linked below is the latest (2003) update
Update On Deep Water Megalithic Stones And Structures Near Western Cuba
Absolutely! And the Northern Chyenne were decendants of the Phoenecians. I love reading all that stuff!
Sounds to me like they accidently came across Jimmy Hoffa.
Under the circumstances, I can't blame them for wanting to ditch the bones ASAP with minimal publicity.
I have a theory that the Gulf Of Mexico was blocked off from the world's oceans across Yucatan, Cuba and Florida during the last Ice Age.
The Gulf Of Mexico would have dried up and essentially become a big lake. That's the only explanation I have for the underwater structures off the Cuban coast. They were built there on dry land during the Ice Age and were flooded 7-12,000 years ago when the 'dam' was broken...similar to the Black Sea flood in 5,600BC.
It could be a good site for Atlantis.(?)
I think all of you will enjoy reading this, long but good.
"Many in the anthropological community decry any suggestion of trans-Pacific or trans-Atlantic contact, as though the adoption by Native Americans of “foreign” technology would somehow take something away from them. The plain fact is that due to natural currents, both trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic contacts were inevitable, if not by design, with certainty by accident. In the one century from 1775 to 1875 at least 20 Japanese junks were involuntarily driven by storms and currents to landing points from the Aleutian Islands to Mexico, an average of 1 watercraft every 5 years. (Robert Heine-Geldern, The Problem of Transpacific Influences in Mesoamerica, The Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4, University of Texas Press, citing Brooks, 1875.) Further, in the last century some 600 African craft have washed up on the coast of South America, a rough average of 1 watercraft every 2 months. (John L. Sorenson and Martin H. Raish, Pre-Columbian Contact with the Americas Across the Oceans: An Annotated Bibliography, Vol II, p. 106, entry M-143)
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