Article

2005-08-16 Africa: North

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Ebbolutch Thavick3284 2005-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In North and especially central and South America, there is such a staggering number of major archeological sites that many are catalogued and "forgotten". Even buried great cities. The reason being that it may be fifty or a hundred years before there are enough experts and money to even dig them up. Even existing sites like Chaco Canyon, NM (100 years of excavation), and Tikal, Guatemala (50 years of excavation), are still taking large amounts of resources for new discoveries. And the pace of new discoveries that cannot be explored is still increasing. Satellite observation alone has discovered dozens of previously unknown edifices.

The great irony of such much time, effort and money is that it has only given the barest outline of the history of the Americas, and one that is not even stable--whose greatest axioms are still regularly challenged.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-16 00:31|| 2005-08-16 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 The great irony of such much time, effort and money is that it has only given the barest outline of the history of the Americas, and one that is not even stable--whose greatest axioms are still regularly challenged.

Yep. There was very, very little attention paid to the complete overturning of the Clovis-first timeline this year. That's 30 years or more of scholarship and excavation that has to be re-evaluated.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-16 07:27|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-16 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 "Yep. There was very, very little attention paid to the complete overturning of the Clovis-first timeline this year. That's 30 years or more of scholarship and excavation that has to be re-evaluated."

Hell hath no fury like an archeologist overturned.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-08-16 11:51|| 2005-08-16 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 "Supreme Council of Antiquities" would be another way of describing the national government of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, UAE, Oman and alot of other wonderful places.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-16 11:52|| 2005-08-16 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Also the crew at "60 Minutes"

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-16 12:27|| 2005-08-16 12:27|| Front Page Top

23:54 JosephMendiola
23:37 JosephMendiola
23:34 JosephMendiola
23:24 Alaska Paul
23:18 JosephMendiola
23:07 Red Dog
23:06 JosephMendiola
23:05 Alaska Paul
23:02 JosephMendiola
22:53 JosephMendiola
22:52 RWV
22:50 Frank G
22:49 Frank G
22:46 Phil Fraering
22:45 Red Dog
22:43 Frank G
22:33 tzsenator
22:17 mac
22:17 phil_b
22:12 FeralCat
22:02 mac
21:56 Silentbrick
21:50 Frank G
21:38 Barbara Skolaut