On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:05:04 -0800, (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:56:47 -0800, (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:
(Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:

First, the Dorset *were also* Inuit. Second, they had not
"vanished". There has been no time between about 4500 BC and
today that Inuit people have not exist on Greenland.

The Dorset and Thule people were the *same* gene pool. The
climate changed, and they rapidly adapted their technology to
match. Dorset culture existed on Greenland from about 900 BC
until about 1500 AD, which is *after* the Norse colony was gone,
and is hundreds of years after the initial Thule culture showed
up.

Why do you have to *continually* change what you claim, and then
every single time you fabricate some new scenario that is just
plain bull****.

http://www.sila.dk/History/Dorset/LateDorset.html

From that site:

"In Greenland only the earliest and latest phases are represented
in the material dated so far; approximately 700 BC - 200 AD, and
800 - 1300 AD."

See - no 4000 years ago.

So now you say you were not referring to the Dorset with that
statement? You quoted text about the Dorset, so what did you
expect readers to associate it with?

You do realize that is what that quoted text is about, right?

Of course its about right!

Whats more it makes rubbish of your claim that Dorset/inuit were
building boats in Greenland 4000 years ago. Can't you do arithmetic?

Eric, are you playing little boy games, or are you really this
dense?

One of us is. :-)

How do you derive from the above that I equate Dorset and Inuit in
Greenland?

If you *don't*, then you are still to ignorant too even talk about
this subject!

I am getting annoyed. I have spent all this time **carefully**
differentiating between Dorset and Inuit/Thule culture in Greenland
and you still keep on pretending you don't understand what I say.

When are you going to get it figured out?

What the Hell are you talking about? *Nobody* believes they never
met! They lived in adjacent villages for hundreds of years. How
could a *very* mobile people, who traded with their neighbors for
hundreds of miles in every direction, not meet?

But in Greenland?

Of course in Greenland. Did you *read* what that site says?
They've found artifacts from Thule culture people all along the
entire coast of Greenland.

Oh good. There are also radar domes. Does that mean the Dorset culture
was familiar with radar domes?

That web site says the Dorset culture continued be used by some
Inuit on Greenland until 1500 AD, or 300 years after they say
the Thule culture first arrived.

The idea that they never met is just another example of you
reading things into it that are not there. And worse yet you
ignore what they do tell you:

"The Eskimos of the Thule culture travelled [sic] throughout
the length of Greenland's coast."

What part of that did you misunderstand? Or do you just intend
on making sure you misunderstand *everything*.

I have a really hard time believing you can actually type and
still use the logic you do. Who puts your clothes on for you?

The Dorset people lived in one particular area for 300 years while
the Thule people (using Umiaqs had greater mobility) were traveling
the entire length of Greenland's coast, including where the Dorset
lived. Just how do you think they did that for 300 years without
stopping by for coffee and trading a few Norse tools? ;-)

Which is to say, over the 300 or so years when both Dorset and
Thule culture existed on Greenland, they *had* to have cross
paths not just occasionally, but with regularity.

In Greenland. We aren't taking about raiding the English coast.




Eric Stevens