[manna]

Thanks for the ping ...

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[WaterDragon]

Why would they have wanted to block holes in the wall with pebbles, a wall underwater?

[killjoy]

Taken together, the discoveries have helped to overturn the established notion that Taiwan's earliest aboriginal inhabitants made their way here from mainland China some 6,000 years ago.(There goes the giant hynea theory, huh?)

The aboriginals in Taiwan are of Polynesian origin, not Chinese.

[copycat]

Anyone who's ever played the game of Risk knows that civilization starts in the South Pacific.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[On this theory, entire cities ended up underwater after sea levels rose towards the end of the last Ice Age, a date cited by Plato as being some 9,600 years ago.]

Does this mean there was global warming back then? Holy moly! Somebody better call Tommy Daschole and the dims.

PS: If possible, I would like to be added to your ping list on archeology/anthropology. Thanks :O)

[2sheep]

eTaiwanNews.com/Scientists argue over possible 'Atlantis' off Penghu

[freedom9]

read later bump

[blam]

Over here.

[rightofrush]

Thank you for another provocative article.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

So now Plato has told us when the last Ice Age ended...

[winodog]

Bump to read later. I read your post but not the thread. I will have to learn the metric system. Now that I get most of my news from the internet it seems the metric system is used to describe almost everything. I wish America had not given up on the conversion back in the 70'.

I remember learning some of it and road signs would soon be changed, then it all fell apart. But thats just another example of how the gov.org can very rarely accomplish anything.