Re: Spirit Pond, Maine

From: Tom McDonald (tmcdonald2672_at_nohormelcharter.net)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:38:03 -0500

Eric Stevens wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:12:04 -0500, Tom McDonald
> <tmcdonald2672@nohormelcharter.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Tedd Jacobs wrote:
>>
>>>"I E Johansson" wrote...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Tom,
>>>>I am not ignorant of the Pre-Elizabethian English artifacts in NA, BUT and
>>>>there is a bigh BUT contrary to several hundred Scandinavian and
>>>>Greenlandic
>>>>Pre-Columbian artifacts which I know from excavation reports and photos to
>>>>have been found either in layers dated to Pre-Columbian days or under more
>>>>than 100 cm sedimentlayer below todays surface, I never been able to find
>>>>one single such excavation report which dates the layer around the
>>>>Pre-Elizabethian English artifacts to be contemporary with their age or at
>>>>least having been found in Pre-Columbian dated layer under surface.
>>>>
>>>>That's the big difference. If you know of any such excavation report I am
>>>>sure that many here would be glad to here more about that.
>>>
>>>
>>>absolutely. i would love to hear more about the excavation reports to which
>>>you refer. where are they published?
>>
>>Tedd,
>>
>> There are tens of thousands of excavation reports that refer to
>>pre-Columbian artifacts in the New World. There are even more
>>that refer to pre-Elizabethan artifacts in the New World. I'm
>>sure you've read tons of them yourself, as have I and most
>>others interested in the pre-Columbian story.
>
>
> Tom,
>
> You know very well that Inger is thinking in terms of pre-Elizabethan
> artifacts of European origin while you are steaming past her in the
> opposite direction talking about pre-Elizabethan artifacts of North
> American origin.

Eric,

        Of course. I think, as I wrote elsewhere, that it's worth
keeping in mind that there is far, far more to North American
pre-Columbian archaeology than Vikings. If we are going to
start another one of these discussions, let's keep that in mind. 

-- 
Tom McDonald

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