Yes...the Inuit's go to the Atlantic coast and would have had capable craft. The coastal tribes would have subsisted on marine mammals and would have had boats, more than likely outriggers that would have had the stability to be on the ocean and would have been able to make to the islands.
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 4:42 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America yeah I got that part. What I was thinking about was which indigenous peoples were around to get infected in the first place. Did the Inuit go that far east? The Cree? Did they have boats capable of getting there from the mainland? Just thinking out loud. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Its on the island of Newfoundland. According to current theory it was > more of an exploration base rather than the Viking settlement. > Moreover the climate then was warmer, very similar to what they were > used to in Greenland and Iceland. > > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Don't know. There's quite a bit of information here if anyone wants > > to > read > > it -- don't have time to do more than skim today myself, tho I'm > interested > > in an academic way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland > > > > An alternate theory is that there may not have been many Native > > American settlements right there - L'Anse aux Meadows is not the > > most hospitable place I'd guess, based on geography. And hmm, what people would that be? > > Inuit? Wouldn't you need more than a kayak to get there? On the > > other > hand, > > the wiki article seems to be saying the Norse were visiting a region > > a > lot > > bigger than that. > > > > It's an interesting question. > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons > ><larrycly...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> > >> I was thinking that Greenland had regular contact with Norway and > >> Denmark, not exactly the most isolated of areas. I would have > >> expected that mainly after the settlement of the vinland theree > >> would have been some outbreak. > >> > >> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > 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:351512 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
