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6,000-Year-old Skull Could Be From The World's Earliest Known Tsunami Victim
EurekAlert! ^ | October 25, 2017 | Field Museum

Posted on 10/30/2017 1:02:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Scientists studying the effects of tsunamis have now shed light on what could be the earliest record of a person killed in a tsunami: someone who lived 6,000 years ago in what's now Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific. Their skull was found in geological sediments having the distinctive hallmarks of ancient tsunami activity... The skull in question was found in 1929, buried in the ground near the small town of Aitape on the northern of Papua New Guinea, about 500 miles north of Australia... In 2014 Golitko and others went back to the exact place where this skull had been found to look for new clues about what killed this individual. "We have now been able to confirm what we have long suspected," says James Goff at the University of New South Wales in Australia, the report's first author. "The geological similarities between the sediments at the place where the skull was found and sediments laid down during the 1998 tsunami that hit this same coastline have made us realise that human populations in this area have been affected by these massive inundations for thousands of years."

(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; newguinea; papuanewguinea; tsunami

1 posted on 10/30/2017 1:02:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
I edited out the nonsequitur climate change nitwitery.

2 posted on 10/30/2017 1:03:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

The old sediment layers would be interesting as well. Just remember that when you’re at the beach and the tide suddenly goes way, way out, run for high ground right now!


3 posted on 10/30/2017 1:40:33 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

And remember that it’s important to not stop running, because the likelihood is the wave, when it starts in, will outrun you, even with a head start. If there’s a tall building with an elevator available, heading to a higher floor could be the best bet. Just a couple years ago I saw one of those alleged eyewitness vids of the Boxing Day tsunami, and it wasn’t the big grand sweep, it showed the rising water pnning people against railings and each other as they tried to climb the stairs, and was taken from a vantage point perhaps ten or fifteen feet above the stricken. Didn’t enjoy watching that very much.


4 posted on 10/30/2017 2:39:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: JimSEA

On the less serious side, a Nat Geog tsunami vid included an interview with a couple who, in the early 1960s, heard one of the very first tsunami warnings after the system got established, and drove down to a park on the ocean “to watch the tsunami come in”. The water crossed the beach, filled the parking lot, and they panicked and tried to drive off, but they were (and this is the fun part) were in a VW Beetle, so the wheels weren’t on the ground. The tsunami started to recede, the car bumped up against the fence, finally settled back onto its wheels, and they then, finally, got out of there. Hippies.


5 posted on 10/30/2017 2:43:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

The water crossed the beach, filled the parking lot, and they panicked and tried to drive off, but they were (and this is the fun part) were in a VW Beetle, so the wheels weren’t on the ground. The tsunami started to recede, the car bumped up against the fence, finally settled back onto its wheels, and they then, finally, got out of there. Hippies.


“That was, like, far out man”!


6 posted on 10/30/2017 4:52:46 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: SunkenCiv

The line between life and death in Puket was often just one story. People on the second story of Puket hotels took pictures of people trapped in the wave being swept away. We were in Chiang Mai on Boxing Day and watched horrified as the pictures came in over Thai TV.


7 posted on 10/30/2017 5:43:23 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: SunkenCiv

Gore is blaming the tsunami on Republicans...and the victim’s relatives should get money for his death...


8 posted on 10/30/2017 9:51:16 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: SunkenCiv

Can’t be that old. No tectonic activity before the Earth was divided in the days of Peleg. Alternatively Biblical Creationism is just stories we tell.


9 posted on 10/30/2017 9:14:02 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (don't forget to mouse your sisterhooks)
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To: Deplorable American1776
Right, and Al's claiming to be the sole legal heir.

10 posted on 10/30/2017 9:29:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Flick Lives
"Two pennies a mile! Two pennies a mile!"

11 posted on 10/30/2017 9:30:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: JimSEA

It’s amazing, given the epicenter, that Thailand suffered even as much as it did.

http://www.abc.net.au/cm/lb/5979674/data/tsunami-toll-graphic-data.jpg

Boxing day tsunami 2004 Thailand - complete series 1/4 Phuket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvo_6BbKKGw


12 posted on 10/30/2017 9:35:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Puket is an island in the Andaman Sea and any wave originating to the south will slam the coasts at least north to Khao Lak.


13 posted on 10/31/2017 12:37:55 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Note: this topic is from 10/30/2017.

14 posted on 09/10/2018 10:02:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv
"..."The geological similarities between the sediments at the place where the skull was found and sediments laid down during the 1998 tsunami... "

...also, when the skull was found it had water up its nose.

15 posted on 09/11/2018 8:43:14 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

There were also some of those inflated duck swimming rings.


16 posted on 09/11/2018 10:06:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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