45-Foot Ancient Canoe Stuck In Muck Of Weedon Island (Tampa Bay)

MSNBC - Tampa Tribune ^ | 5-5-2008 | KEITH MORELLI

[weegee]

This is why you have to shread every scrap of paper today... The historians of the future will dig it out of trash heaps, reconstitute your DNA, and ask you annoying questions about what you used “this” for...

[weegee]

They were advanced enough NOT to use petrified wood for their canoes.

[Beagle8U]

“You ever try to hollow out a 50 foot tree?........”

In most cases before the advent of iron tools, fire was used to burn out most of the wood using hot coals.

[blam]

Check out these Floridians:

Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)

* 90 intact human brains that include the oldest DNA samples in the World.

[VeniVidiVici]

You ever try to hollow out a 50 foot tree?........ with stone tools no less!

It's not like they had to squeeze it in between American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.

[Old Professer]

“In most cases before the advent of iron tools, fire was used to burn out most of the wood using hot coals.”

That must have been like examining brand-new horseshoes...

[fish hawk]

I guess to people that think like you would have them invent the lumber mill and nails first, then build the canoe and be classified as “advanced”. Actually they used what nature had supplied them in their environment. My tribe carved solid canoes out of redwood trees. Although they did not make them 40 feet long, more like 16 to 24 feet.

[ClearCase_guy]

Clearly I have staged a vicious attack against your people and yourself. You have properly chastised me for my lashing insults to your ancestors -- my derision of their boat-making skills has been noted and I am now truly chagrined.

I will never again refer to Stone Age people as "simple".

[Beagle8U]

“That must have been like examining brand-new horseshoes...”

It doesn’t take long to inspect one of those...lol.

[najida]

http://www.cavemanscrib.com

And they can dance too.

[Soliton]

It was a pine tree soft enough to pound out. there are some big oaks and cypress there. They were smart enough not to use them.

[fish hawk]

Look at it this way. In 200 years from now, if humans survive, they will look at our trains and airplanes and laugh at how simple and backward we were compared to their way of doing things and their materials to do it with. In our defense we can say that , hey, we did the best we could with the knowledge and materials we had to work with.

[Natural Law]

Interesting find, but BFD. How do you suppose the Caribbean Islands were populated?

[weegee]

"We thank you."

[weegee]

Who are they voting for in 2008?

[JRandomFreeper]

How do you suppose the Caribbean Islands were populated?

By hetrosexuals?

/johnny

[Arguendo]

I guess to people that think like you would have them invent the lumber mill and nails first, then build the canoe and be classified as “advanced”. Actually they used what nature had supplied them in their environment.

That makes sense. Simple cultures use what nature makes available to them, sometimes very effectively, but still remain largely constrained by nature. Advanced cultures developed technologies that allow them to do far more given similar natural endowments.

[Beagle8U]

“It was a pine tree soft enough to pound out. there are some big oaks and cypress there. They were smart enough not to use them.”

What kind of pine was it? Not all pine is soft. Ever hear of yellow, or lob-lolly pine? It's quite hard and very common in the south.

[count-your-change]

Some letters were scratched on the side of the craft that, when fully deciphered, read. “AARP member since 900 a.d.”

[count-your-change]

Digging Up Coprolites, or How to Make a Living Rooting Around in Old Sewers comes to mind (and leaves just as quickly).