On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:15:46 GMT, Seppo Renfors
wrote:



Eric Stevens wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:42:40 GMT, Seppo Renfors
wrote:



Tom McDonald wrote:

Seppo Renfors wrote:

Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:

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Others who specialize in Pre-Columbian American archeology agree.
Michael Smith, associate professor of anthropology at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, says "the evidence she has, the
evidence from metallurgy, is the strongest evidence. I don't doubt at
all what happened... I don't know what more you could hope for, other
than finding a boat with a sign that says 'this way to Acapulco'."



Hmmmm perhaps this might do instead?

http://www.rocklakeresearch.com/history.htm


Seppo,

What do you find interesting in that web site? It reiterates,
without a shred of evidence and no references,

Well..... that alone should have been very attractive to you! I don't
really know why you are asking me, as you are not really interested in
my opinion - merely an opportunity to denigrate what ever that opinion
might be - irrespective of what it might be. You see, you have already
anticipated exactly that and started the denigration even though you
don't know WHY I posted that URL! So your question is redundant and
needs no answer.

the story of vast
amounts of copper being mined by Europeans ca. 3000 BC-1250 BC,
and shipped to Europe from the mines in the UP of Michigan.

Oh but that site tells of far more than merely that!!

The
web site's 'History' is right out of some of the more
speculative Mormon views of history and North American
archaeology, and has holes in it large enough to drive a lorry
train through.

Is "Mormon" a verboten religion in your mind as you hold that LABEL
up? It is indeed true that "North American archaeology" dogma has
"holes in it large enough to drive a lorry train through" (whatever a
"lorry train" might be). There is a will to retain the holes as well -
you know to protect the establishment dogma.

So, what do you find interesting and applicable to the present
topic in that web page?

You can't tell? How about some key words like "metallurgy" + "mining"
+ "Gulf of Mexico" + "Acapulco" + "cast copper" + "Cahokia" + "copper
trade" + missing copper.

Still, if you looked under the heading "Gallery" you might see
something interesting.

You should have posted http://www.rocklakeresearch.com/gallery.htm to
begin with.

You mean to say all that history in the page I pointed to as a
starting point - is not worth looking at - or what is there to be
afraid of on that page?

When someone complained about the page you posted you said to look at
the 'gallery'. When I sai you should have directly posted the URL of
the gallery you said I should be looking at the original page.

Which one do you really mean to direct us to?

Whatever you might think about their theories, there is one thing that
is particularly interesting there - the claimed hiatus of mining
between 1200 BC and 900 AD. Didn't you see that?

Yep - that story is old hiatus.




Eric Stevens