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Ancient Corncobs Unlock Riddle
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| 10-14-2003
| Mike Toner
Posted on 10/14/2003 3:41:39 PM PDT by blam
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To: farmfriend
Over here. Are you back?
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posted on
10/14/2003 6:37:12 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
Maybe.
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posted on
10/14/2003 6:50:22 PM PDT
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farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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10/14/2003 6:52:53 PM PDT
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farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: blam
So, why did the farmers give the Chaco people their corn? What did they get in return?
To: Question_Assumptions
"What did they get in return?" Spiritual guidance? (Give us corn and we won't eat you)
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10/14/2003 8:07:52 PM PDT
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blam
To: decimon
They were trading for corn with homo grown "JERKY".
To: blam
(Give us corn and we won't eat you) Exactly! Something very nasty was brewing down there and a lot of archaeologists seem to need to be dragged kicking and screaming to the obvious conclusion.
To: Question_Assumptions
Check out my post #15 and #17. Christy Turner has already gotten the 'goods' on this whole situation.
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posted on
10/14/2003 8:59:38 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
Could both the abandonment & the cannibalism have a common cause (e.g., a virulent madness)?
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posted on
10/14/2003 9:06:35 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: Question_Assumptions
a lot of archaeologists seem to need to be dragged kicking and screaming to the obvious conclusion. That's seems to be pretty much always the case. I suspect grant money has something to due with it.
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posted on
10/14/2003 9:26:58 PM PDT
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lizma
To: decimon
Bingo!
What was the basis for trade?
Living in an arid and generally inhospitible place and having extensive trade suggests SOMETHING of value that was readily available to the locals.
Las Vegas aside, a pre-Colombian Vatican aside, the old people must have had something that others wanted badly.
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posted on
10/14/2003 9:28:22 PM PDT
by
norton
(Hey sailor, you want my seester?)
To: P.O.E.
"Could both the abandonment & the cannibalism have a common cause (e.g., a virulent madness)?" It gets even stranger, Dr Nancy Yaw Davis makes a compelling case in her book The Zuni Enigma that the Japanese replaced the American Indians in that area.
The Zuni language and blood type is unlike all other American Indians. The Japanese were on a search for the center of the earth and decided that they had found it there.
"For many years, anthropologists have understood the Zuni in the American Southwest to occupy a special place in Native American culture and ethnography. Their language, religion, and blood type are startlingly different from all other tribes. Most puzzling, the Zuni appear to have much in common with the people of Japan. "
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10/14/2003 9:31:56 PM PDT
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blam
To: lizma
That's seems to be pretty much always the case. I suspect grant money has something to due with it. Lawrence Keeley tells a very interesting story in his book War Before Civilization (which I highly recommend) about getting a previously denied grant by changing the word "fortifications" (implying warfare) to "enclosures" (implying a peaceful purpose) in his grant request. The illustration he provides showing the distribution of arrow heads that he found around one of the "enclosures" shows just how rediculous the peaceful interpretation is.
To: blam
Fascinating...
See also the movie, Ravenous .
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posted on
10/19/2003 3:37:15 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: blam
If, as Turner believes in the article, "Cultists and warriors of the Quetzalcoatl overwhelmed the local residents," then I wonder if there would be a DNA match between Chaco Canyon resident burials and Aztecs.
Likewise, it would be interesting to see if there was a DNA match between Aztecs and earlier inhabitants of the region (ie, pre-Anasazi). That would seem to help validate or help invalidate the MeCHA claim that the ancestral homeland of the Mexican people is in the southwestern U.S.
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posted on
10/19/2003 5:13:14 PM PDT
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SteveH
To: SteveH
A DNA analysis would pretty much answer the question, I agree.
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posted on
10/19/2003 5:32:27 PM PDT
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blam
To: Question_Assumptions; blam
It sounded like they brought wood from one location and corn from another. Could it have been a central location for trade?
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posted on
10/19/2003 5:39:00 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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05/25/2010 5:42:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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