Raiders Of The Faux Ark

Archaeology Magazine ^ | 10-10-2007 | Eric Cline

[WashingtonSource]

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[ApplegateRanch]

The Manuscript Quiche

Sounds like a French Dark Ages recipe. Doesn't rise well, and tastes a bit musty.

Servius wrote, "It was not of a flaming but of a bloody redness."

The bloody 'ell, ye say! I guess ye could fork it forever, and it still wouldn't be done.

Was this the same comet's tail that filled the atmosphere with sugary granules, that eventually fell as mana? Or the one that created petroleum droplets?

the reddening of the earth's surface by a fine dust of rusty pigment.

Lucky it was soluble pigment; removes any need to explain why we don't find traces of it anywhere in the stratigraphic record.

Ipuwer, the Egyptian eyewitness to the catastrophe,

One entire Egyptian? I'm stuned that so many saw and wrote of it!

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.specialtyinterests.net/ipuwer.html

[Coyoteman]

As long as amateurs can dig up old stuff, professional old stuff digger-uppers will have to deal with it.

You might try brain surgery. That makes a good hobby too.

[JmyBryan]

Oh come on. I know you’re an intelligent person. Equating archaeology with neurosurgery is a bit of a stretch, dontcha think? Or has the black market in specialized brain surgery been booming lately?

[BibChr]

ut much more common is a vast and echoing silence reminiscent of the early days of the debate over "intelligent design," when biologists were reluctant to respond to the neocreationist challenge

...aaaaand there he loses me.

It's so funny, FReepers have contempt for the "Trust The Experts" line everywhere but here.

[sauropod]

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[Coyoteman]

Oh come on. I know you’re an intelligent person. Equating archaeology with neurosurgery is a bit of a stretch, dontcha think? Or has the black market in specialized brain surgery been booming lately?

I did six years of grad school to learn archaeology and related subjects. You can learn brain surgery in less time.

My point is that serious archaeology is no place for amateurs. They cause more damage and problems than they are worth.

[Pelham]

“America, B.C.”?

[SunkenCiv]

That was the first of three.

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks for the link, Fred.

Somehow, I can’t get any more out of that than a rather poetic lamention about the destruction of his nation by “foreign tribe from abroad” invaders.

The side-by-side seems pretty stretched.

Blood, guts, gore, atrocities, fire, destuction, and more blood. Sounds like a typical ancient invade, kill, loot, rape, pillage, burn, and destroy scenario.