Re: [gardeners] Wednesday, pretty close to the garden
lneuru@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:47:54 -0400
Shucks Margaret, why don't you just speak up there? <VBG> You and I
are old enough to remember the NEBC (No Europeans Before Columbus)
group of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists too. Now it is
accepted theory that yes, Virginia, there were Europeans in the New
World before Chris Columbus,
In Canada, George:Newfoundland, a place today known as L'Anse aux
Meadows. NW tip of Newf. A 9th century Viking settlement was found,
complete with runes, which dated the place to Eric the red or was it lief
erikson or are these the same guys??? oh, I should go check but too lazy
right this minute. The exciting thing is the refs in the runes tie into some of
the norse sagas which we all thought were bs when we read them in school.
None of this was discovered before the 80s, which puts an awful lot of us in
the no Europeans before Columbus camp.
also Asians and possibly Africans.
Australian Aborigines, I would doubt that myself. Pacific Islanders,
no doubt at all.
I though Pacific Islanders were related to the Abos...where is Evil John these
days? He should know, and even if he doesn't I'm sure he would venture an
opinion:)).
Lucinda
George
Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
>
> I've been thinking of you, Lucinda. Is school out yet? We
> recently watched a program on a digital Discovery channel about
> early population of parts of Brazil and the southern tip (name
> escapes me at the moment). French archaeologists were claiming that
> descendants of Australian aborigines settled Brazil 12 to 15,000
> years ago IIRC (anyway, it was earlier than the usual 11,000 years
> that I've read), having crossed the Pacific Ocean then,not being
> content to be on solid ground, hiked across the northern tip of
> South America to settle in the Amazon basin. Then they migrated
> southward, serving as the Tierra del Fuegan "Indians." I sat there,
> turned to Chuck and said "this is bullshit. I'm changing channels."
> Are these French archaeologists (female) as whacko as I think, or is
> it me? Margaret L
>
> >What old roses do you have George?
> >
> >Lucinda