Beam me to Planet Gore !
Roy Spencer, the Official Climatologist of the EIB Network
Posted on 02/12/2008 2:07:20 PM PST by blam
Hey I get to be first:
It’s Bush’s fault!
It was Creamer and Haas (They're married) who so upset Ruth Shady at the Caral Site that she discovered a few years back.
And with the current climate change, a culture of blooming idiots emerged around the world.
"This isn't the coolest archaeology in the world in terms of the stuff you find," he says. "There are no beautiful ceramics, no gold masks ... our treasure is trash, residential architecture, and all of a sudden those start bringing together this incredible picture of the origins of civilization in South America."
I'd bet a dollar to doughnuts he sold the project to the money men with code words about climate change and global warming--of the anthropogenic variety. Good for him.
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Garbage bins behind NYC restaurants are loaded with lobster shells from Maine, over 400 miles away. But why?
I’ll bet a dollar against a hole in a doughnut, that it was a tsunami that drove them inland (along with the sea shells).
Pisco Formation exposed in Cerro Blanco (foreground) and Cerro Baleena (background). Notice lack of vegetation, and well-exposed stratigraphy, because there is no rain. This made it easy to find fossils and study the sediments, and facilitated accurate determination of the stratigraphic position of fossils. There has been only limited tectonic activity here after deposition of the Pisco Fm., which facilitates determination of the original Miocene/Pliocene paleogeography. The lower part of these hills (steeper slopes) is largely sandstone with some diatomite, and the upper part (containing most of the whales) is mostly diatomite.
Completely articulated fossil whale, except for one missing flipper, on Cerro Blanco. Front of skull damaged by modern erosion. Otherwise the bones are very well preserved.
Distribution of fossil whales on Cerro Blanco, superimposed on an aerial photo. Red dots = individual whales (N = 180). Black dots = specimens that cannot be determined to be complete whales, usually because of post-exposure erosional damage (N = 166). It appears likely that most whales were essentially complete before the effects of modern erosion processes.
A tsunami put the whales on land? How old are the bones?
A tsunami put the whales on land? How old are the bones?
A broad outline of the Norte Chico diet has been suggested. At Caral, the edible domesticated plants noted by Shady are squash, beans, lucuma, guava, pacay, and camote.[4] Haas et al. noted the same foods in their survey further north, while adding avocado and achira.
There was also a significant seafood component, at both coastal and inland sites. Shady notes that "animal remains are almost exclusively marine" at Caral, including clams and mussels, and a large amount of anchovies and sardines.[4] That the anchovy fish reached inland is clear...
hmmm...so that's how the clams, mussles and anchovies ended up at Caral, they came with the whales!
Taphonomy of fossil whales in the Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Fm., Peru
Baleen from Fernanda. Left - surface view of the baleen (~ 8 cm from top to bottom of photo). Upper right - cross section of baleen. The dark colored v-shaped structures are sheets of baleen. Lower right - microscopic enlargement of surface of a sheet of baleen. Notice the fine ridges preserved in the baleen. We found fossilized baleen in several other whales also, but the baleen was best preserved in this whale. This type of preservation requires rapid burial, before the baleen tissue decayed. Fernanda was also buried before the spinal cord decayed, as black mineral replacement of the spinal cord was present in its normal position within the vertebral column (but nowhere else).
How old are the bones?
Miocene/Pliocene/Eenie/Meenie/Minie/Mo!
The finds include the fossilised skeletons of whales, seals, dolphins, turtles, sharks, penguins and even sloths, which swam around in the coastal water millions of years ago.
Teeth, Fossil Shark
The site is also rich in archaeological remains. The team regularly finds potsherds, shells… left behind by ancient Inca peoples...(millions of years ago?)
Pingaling.
Those clams...did they have beards?
I believe that cold-swings caused the Dark Ages... and The Plague as well.
Piles of fossilized, human waste found on the burial site of the 42’nd president of the United States... But why?
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