that may be Eric, but I never saw anything like that on my 2 year stay in the eastern arctic.
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > The Eskimos had something that was like an outrigger. I forget the term > used for it offhand > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 7:16 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America > > > Not sure about that Eric, I've been in umiaks and while they float I > wouldn't want to have to paddle more than a few miles across open water in > one of them. > > BTW wrong culture, outriggers are asian not inuit. > > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> 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:351527 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
