Posted on 03/08/2005 3:15:39 PM PST by blam
Also found but not mentioned in the reports were several piles of ram bones that appeared to have been well gnawed. The incisions were microscopically examined and determined to be produced by wolf teeth.
The conclusion from the masses of bones was that the area was an ancient feeding area for a Wolf Pack that slaughtered the resident ram population.
"But, until the new discovery, researchers hadn't found artifacts such as pottery fragments intermingled with spear points from the same period. Such mixing would indicate the region was a seasonal home for the nomads."
I don't think so. They were obvious returning from a beer run. Why else would you be carrying pottery and spears?
"they wrapped cloth around paddles to press the air out of clay"
Where did they get the cloth? This band of nomads had looms?
These guys, Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida), had fabric that was as finely woven as a present day T-shirt. They didn't say they had looms but, it can't be explained otherwise.
"*All told, 87 cloth fragments from an estimated 67 complete items were recovered from the dig. The cloth was made from the leaves of sabal palm. The pieces reveal five different methods of fabric making, all without benefit of a loom. Even so, some fabrics are woven as tightly as a cotton T-shirt. Others are made more loosely twined into blankets, capes, and toga-like garments."
Go 'Pack!! :-)
(NCSU, Class of '81)
Hummmmm! Early t-shirt manufacturers. How about that!
Chesterton would be the funnest guy in an argument ever. Read "Orthodoxy", and the two little books on Thomas Aquinas and Francis of Assisi.
That officer may have left behind a memento of the romance. Among the artifacts recovered during the recent dig was a brass button that came from the coat of a Civil War-era U.S. Army officer."
"Take me, I'm yours," she sighed throatily as he ripped off his coat, brass buttons popping loose upon the ground.
... and just when did the Indians start forming tribes? As far as I know, in the South American rain forest, "tribes" usually constitute the same number of individuals cited. If the numbers increase, a number of the people split off - perhaps they get PO'd or whatever, but basically, there is just so many their type of subsitance living could sustain in a given area. JMO
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