no epidemics going on there at the time they left? Also, didn't the people who landed in Newfoundland and Quebec come from the Greenland settlements? They would have been pretty isolated from disease vectors in Europe (?) Just thinking out loud -- I don't know any more about this than I just read.
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I did a couple of archeological field schools in college. One was at > L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. I sincerely hope that the winters > were mild there (they were not), because those huts were pretty > miserable. While most of the six weeks were just scraping away as the > dirt, I did find a couple of flint arrowheads at about the right depth > for the time period. So at the very least there were locals near the > Vikings campsite roughly around the same time as the Viking Sagas. > > One thing about that massive disease outbreak after Spain started > sending ships to the west, why didn't something similar happen when > the Vikings came over? > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > > > You should go to Chillicothe Maureen... You can still hear the voices > > echoing... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:32 PM > > To: cf-community > > Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America > > > > > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Eric Roberts > > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > >> Chillicothe, OH. Other mounds in their culture include the mounds > >> just east of St. Louis, MO in Cahokia, IL. > > > > I visited the Cahokia mounds about 15 years ago. Beautiful spot, but > > spiritually dead. When those folks left they took everything with them, > > even their power. > > > > The Rock Eagle Mound in east Georgia, however, is still so powerful that > the > > air around it sings. It would have been magical to attend one of the > > ceremonies there > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351469 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
