Dear Ed and List,
Ed, I am sure the list would be interested in seeing
your Table of Contents or excerpts from your book.
This might also aid in more sales of your book.
I have been looking for a review of your book; if
you know of any reviews please let us know.
Thank you. Dirk Ross...Tokyo
I encourage Dr. Blakeslee, archaeologist from
Kansas, a member of this list to join the discussion.
--- "E.P. Grondine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Sterling,
>
> What may be an Iroquoian tradition of the Brenham
> impact is given in "Man and Impact in the Americas"
> (available through amazon.com). I am glad that
> organic
> samples were taken for radio-carbon dating in Steve
> Arnold's hunt.
>
> I am sure that the physics of that impact have been
> analyzed, but I don't know if a concise description
> of
> the appearance of that small impact has ever been
> written up. My guess is that one will probably be
> part of the television special.
>
> As I mentioned earlier, the "Hopewell" - Cherokee,
> Shawnee - value meteorites. I mentioned Mooney's
> reports of the Cherokee meteorite trade earlier, and
> I
> note here that the Shawnee have a rather elaborate
> vocabulary for celestial phenomenon. When you
> consider
> the astronomical function of "Hopewell" ring
> structures, this should come as no surprise.
>
> Note that some of the meteorites were found beaten
> into sheets, and near mica - these were mirrored
> surfaces, and as I mentioned earlier, polished iron
> slices, particularly from North American meteorites,
> will find good trade value from artisans at powwow.
> Fire starting irons are valued as well today, and
> this
> is pretty generally held.
>
> good hunting,
> Ed
> Man and Impact in the Americas
>
>
> --- "Sterling K. Webb"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi, Doug,
> >
> >Hijacking your nice thread again...
> >
> >The tektites in Tikal didn't "find their way"
> > there
> > by any other means than falling out of the sky.
> They
> > have been found in the temples, anciently
> collected,
> > and one much more degraded one has been found
> > in the forests surrounding.
> >
> >Alan Hildebrandt dated them and they fall right
> > into the upper end of the dating spread for
> > Australite/
> > Indochinite tektites, which, surprise! they look
> > just
> > exactly like. Grab your globe and give it a twirl.
> > Tikal's "antipodal point" is on the western edge
> of
> > the Australo-Asian strewn field. Likewise, an
> > Ivorite
> > was recovered from off shore of the Australian
> > coast.
> > equally antipodal to Ivory Coast, unless you think
> > "the currents" carried it there -:) laughing...
> >
> > Casa Grande was found in 1867: "A mass of
> > 3407lb
> > was found in an ancient tomb, E.G. Tarayre (1867).
> > L. Fletcher (1890) implies that this mass was
> > presented
> > to the Smithsonian Institution in 1876. First
> > Description,
> > W. Tassin (1902). Analysis, 7.74 %Ni, G.P. Merrill
> > (1913).
> > Historical note, O.E. Monnig (1939)..."
> >
> > Somebody asked for referrences on meteorite
> > collecting
> > by early American cultures (Maybe Ed). Here's one
> > about
> > Hopewell meteorite collecting, except it goes on
> to
> > discuss
> > dozens of other cultures, locales, and meteorites
> > including Casa
> > Grandes. It's a nice piece of work by Olaf Prufer:
> >
>
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/4817/1/V61N06_341.pdf
> >
> > No surprize, H. H. Nininger wrote "METEORITE
> > COLLECTING
> > AMONG ANCIENT AMERICANS" in 1938. That paper can
> be
> > found at:
> >
>
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7316(193807)4%3A1%3C39%3AMCAAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
> > but it's where no mere mortal without official
> > access can view it...
> > You can read the first page, though, which is
> enough
> > to see that
> > it covers much the same ground as the paper
> > previously cited
> > (up above this one) which you can get to see (and
> > download).
> >
> > Handing the thread back to you, Doug.
> >
> >
> > Sterling K. Webb
> > >
> >
>
-
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "MexicoDoug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "Martin Altmann"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Cc:
> > > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:03 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite novels
> > -gifts II
> > >
> > >
> > > Whe, Martin, thanks for the kind comments
> --
> > I re-read my post, your
> > > words and by all means did take one comment very
> > much to heart. I'm
> > > guilty
> > > as charged for not giving further consideration
> to
> > other meteoritically
> > > interested cultures between those Germanic and
> > ancients. I think Ed would
> > > be the better expert in that department on this
> > side of the Atlantic. You
> > > speak of the Aztecs as a culture with as rich of
> a
> > treatment of things
> > > meteoritic as the medieval traditions in your
> > lands... I'd
