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Archaeologists Unearth 1,700 Year-Old Canal System Near Lake Okeechobee (Florida)
Sun- Sentinel ^ | 6-6-2002 | Rhonda Miller

Posted on 06/07/2002 2:13:56 PM PDT by blam

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

ORTONA

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 1; 700; archaeologists; archaeology; canal; curseofagade; florida; ggg; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; history; lake; miamiriver; mikebaillie; okeechobee; paleoclimatology; precolumbian; system; tequesta; tequestatribe
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To: SunkenCiv

DAMNIT YOU MADE ME REPLY TO ANCIENT THREADS ....AGAIN! :(


101 posted on 06/03/2006 3:40:58 PM PDT by S0122017
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To: S0122017
"Atlantis is not on Antarctica dude."

Maybe here:

Sundaland

102 posted on 06/03/2006 4:04:58 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

lol I think we had that discussion before, I can believe Sundaland was Atlantis but am not convinced. If one continent/island/culture can be destroyed by a flood, there are bound to be many more. Especially if they where worldwide floods caused by extraterrestrial pebbles.


103 posted on 06/03/2006 4:11:27 PM PDT by S0122017
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To: Carry_Okie; blam

Although considerable trade occurred within North America and Mesoamerica (and some trade with South America) before the European conquest, the population of the New World had only a few brief contacts with the population of the Old World. All these contacts involved the Vikings, a high-latitude population quite isolated from the rest of European society and thus not susceptible to European diseases.

Europe itself had suffered mightily at the hands of disease, particularly during the terrible fourteenth century, which brought the Little Ice Age, Great Famine, and Black Death. The Black Death remains probably the second deadliest plague in world history, eclipsed in sheer number of fatalities only by the 1918 Spanish influenza. These calamities radically reduced the European population and effectively ended the relative prosperity of the High Middle Ages.

The great mound builders in America might have suffered internal strife and problems associated with shifting climates. Most historians believe that native societies began to decline somewhat before European contact. But that constant contact brought terrible diseases that assumed epidemic proportions if they spread beyond their ports of entry. Because the native populations had almost no prior contact with European or Asian societies for the previous several thousand years, this repeated disease exposures surely decimated native societies even more than similar diseases ravaged Europe.

Perhaps we can find somewhat of an analogy in the 1918 Spanish influenza. The disease killed hundreds of thousands of Americans; however, it claimed perhaps one hundred million lives globally. India lost fully five percent of its population despite significant exposure to European diseases over the previous century. Perhaps the worst-affected place was tiny Brevig Mission, Alaska, which lost 85% of its population--mostly Eskimos with almost no exposure to the diseases of temperate urban Western civilization.

And let us not forget that the Europeans brought numerous dreaded diseases with them, often simultaneously, not just a single disease like the terrible Black Death or Spanish influenza. People who successfully fight one disease might remain physically and mentally weakened years after beginning recovery and struggling with grief over the loss of family. The more debilitating diseases would leave many disabled individuals who could not contribute to the agricultural economy, leading to famine. Weak persons with compromised immune systems and weakened or damaged organs frequently fall victim to disease. Native American populations could not develop immunity to every European disease without first contacting all of them, with the possible exception of smallpox, for which an inoculation (vaccine) existed.


104 posted on 06/03/2006 4:21:17 PM PDT by dufekin
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To: S0122017
"You understand wrong or are confused with Utnapistim."

The Sumerians (wise men from the east) may have been Sundalanders or their descendents.

Eden in the East

The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia

Stephen Oppenheimer

The biblical flood really did occur - at the end of the last Ice Age. The Flood drowned for ever the huge continetal shelf of Southeast Asia, and caused a population dispersal which fertilized the Neolithic cultures of China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, thus creating the first civilizations.
The Polynesians did not come from China but from the islands of Southeast Asia. The domestication of rice was not in China but in the Malay Peninsula, 9,000 years ago.

In this ground breaking new book Stephen Oppenheimer reveals how evidence from oceanography, archaeology, linguistics, genetics and folklore overwhelmingly suggests that the lost 'Eden' - the cradle of civilization - was not in the Middle East, as is usually supposed, but in the drowned continent of Southeast Asia.

Paperback 575 pages (July 1, 1999)
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105 posted on 06/03/2006 4:26:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: dufekin
Don't forget the Dark Ages and the Justinian Plague in/around 540AD.

Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico

106 posted on 06/03/2006 4:31:55 PM PDT by blam
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To: Rodney King
Before the world was round, canals ran south east...north west...but due a hole in western ocean, created by a 300 mile wide comet, recently found under the ice in the Antarctica...the canals fell into disuse, and were left to be discovered, by some aspiring Ph.D. candidate, using enhanced satellite photos....
107 posted on 06/03/2006 4:32:31 PM PDT by thinking
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To: S0122017
DAMNIT YOU MADE ME REPLY TO ANCIENT THREADS ....AGAIN! :(
Shame on me. ;'P
108 posted on 06/03/2006 4:36:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: S0122017
Even Plato didn't locate it there.

He located it outside the Pillars of Hercules... Gibraltar. Antarctica still fits the bill as a possible location... dude.

109 posted on 06/03/2006 4:41:36 PM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: thinking

Wow, I don't even remember posting on this thread.


110 posted on 06/03/2006 6:56:57 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Kermit

"The EPA wants to dig these people up..."


But they'll put the Archaeologists out of business doing that!(Time to organize the APE -archaeologists protection from environmentalists - in response to the EPA.)


111 posted on 06/03/2006 8:01:47 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: johnny7
He located it outside the Pillars of Hercules... Gibraltar. Antarctica still fits the bill as a possible location... dude.

No it doesn't. If you interpret 'past the Pillars of Hercules' to that extent than it covers half the planet.
112 posted on 06/04/2006 3:58:02 AM PDT by S0122017
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To: blam
ORTONA – Archaeologists on Thursday said they have uncovered a sophisticated 1,700 year-old canal system and a huge pond dug by ancient Indians near this tiny town, located west of Lake Okeechobee.

Neolithic corporate thugs detroying the environment PING!

113 posted on 06/04/2006 3:59:03 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Rodney King

Ain't it bizzaro?! I got some newbie giving me grief on something I posted half-jokingly 4 years ago.


114 posted on 06/04/2006 5:20:01 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: blam

Wonder why they were digging canals? Certainly not for irrigation since there's plenty of natural rain in Fla. Draining the swamps?


115 posted on 06/04/2006 5:32:48 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Rodney King

Magnetic declination? I gotta look that up for 1700 years ago...


116 posted on 06/04/2006 5:38:22 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
mag dec AD300 in europe It could be 20 degrees west in FLorida... at AD 300, that is.
117 posted on 06/04/2006 5:45:53 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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