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Vintage Skulls
Archaeology Magazine ^
| March/April 2003
| Colleen P. Popson
Posted on 02/22/2003 9:06:38 AM PST by blam
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I expect these are of the Kennewick Man, Spirit Cave Man, Buhl Woman variety which are believed to be of Ainu/Jomon stock. (They exhibit many Caucasian features.)
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:06:38 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
"Alas, poor Yorick...."
<|:)~
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:11:52 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(oh, did I say that out loud?)
To: blam
Oldest Human Remains in North America Found In 1959, the partial skeletal remains of an ancient woman estimated to be 10,000 years old were unearthed in Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island, one of the eight Channel Islands off the southern California coast. They were discovered by Phil C. Orr, curator of anthropology and natural history at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The remains of the so-called Arlington Springs woman were recently reanalyzed by the latest radiocarbon dating techniques and were found to be approximately 13,000 years old. The new date makes her remains older than any other known human skeleton found so far in North America.
The discovery challenges the popular belief that the first colonists to North America arrived at the end of the last ice age about 11,500 years ago by crossing a Bering land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska and northwestern Canada. The earlier date and the location of the woman's remains on the island adds weight to an alternative theory that some early settlers may have constructed boats and migrated from Asia by sailing down the Pacific coast.(Just because they came from Asia does not mean that they were Orientals)
The Arlington Springs woman lived during the end of the Pleistocene era when large herds of bison and woolly mammoths roamed the grassy plains and other extinct native American animals such as camels, horses, and saber-toothed cats were still around.
The remains of Pleistocene-era animals have been discovered on Santa Rosa Island where the Arlington Springs woman was found. In 1994, the world's most complete skeleton of a pygmy mammoth, a dwarf species, was also excavated here.
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:13:04 AM PST
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blam
To: blam
What?
No 'millions of years'?
Dr. Usher ... calling Dr. Usher .....
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:13:44 AM PST
by
knarf
To: blam
Yeah, Carbon14 dating is so accurate. Archeology, what a load.
To: knarf
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:18:52 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Bump
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:20:20 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Archeology, what a load.Mormon?
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:20:35 AM PST
by
Stultis
To: knarf
"Dr. Usher ... calling Dr. Usher ....." You mean Bishop Usser who dated the world at 4004 years old?
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:21:29 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
I would be interesting if it it turns out that the Indians did a more thorough job of wiping out their white predecessors than a second wave of white migrants did to the Indians.
Many Indians don't much like the term "native American" anyway.
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:22:18 AM PST
by
Cicero
To: blam
You mean Bishop Usser who dated the world at 4004 years old?Not exactly. I believed he dated the Creation to 4004 BC, which would make the world a little over 6000 years old.
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:27:33 AM PST
by
Restorer
(TANSTAAFL)
To: blam
You mean Bishop Usser who dated the world at 4004 years old?Not exactly. I believed he dated the Creation to 4004 BC, which would make the world a little over 6000 years old.
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:27:35 AM PST
by
Restorer
(TANSTAAFL)
To: blam
Skull shape can be modified to suit whatever is considered desirable. My older brother married a Korean woman, and he told me about when they had their first baby he saw her pick the kid up and with one hand on the forehead and the other hand at the back of the skull, start to press, to start the process of shaping his head. I understand this is still done in Oriental countries. And with a baby's soft bones being so malleable, I am sure the shaping could go the other way if the parents thought long and narrow was desirable.
Skull shape might not indicate so much about genetics.
To: blam
Sorta rminds me of my mother-in-law.
To: blam; All
How could this possibly be? I just read on a Free Republic thread just last week that the oldest signs found in the Americas was 6,000 years old. Now you know that FReepers could not possibly make a mistake! Especially a 7000 year one. <>>>>(;^)
To: martin_fierro
Me(ow)mento Mori
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02/22/2003 9:32:41 AM PST
by
SarahW
To: Restorer
"Not exactly. I believed he dated the Creation to 4004 BC, which would make the world a little over 6000 years old." You are correct. I couldn't remember if it was 'BC' or not. I had expected to be 'called' on the date regardless. Thanks.
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:54:53 AM PST
by
blam
To: Cicero
Okay. I confess. We came and they threw spears at us and we threw them back. Our aim just happened to be a little better.
Sorry. Now can you just get over it? It was 10,000 years ago.
Many Indians don't much like the term "native American" anyway.
American is just fine. Wyandot if you want to be specific.
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posted on
02/22/2003 9:56:22 AM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Sometimes "peace" is another word for surrender.)
To: blam
I want an Indian Number; I want a casino; and I want my college paid for. Oh, and I want one of those cool drums with the feather tied to the side.
To: Dog Gone; albee; Cool Guy; CobaltBlue; Clara Lou; Boomer Geezer; FreetheSouth!; ruoflaw; ...
Ping. (Get over here and bump this article!)
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02/22/2003 11:36:00 AM PST
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blam
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