Re: Old paradigm is rocking!


"Alan Crozier" <name1.name2@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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"Peter Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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IE J wrote: news:e5BTf.49102$d5.205331@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"....... Rameh chert from Labrador has been found in
Greenland.........it can be assumed that the American
mainland was
utilized for furs, falcons and timber beyond the thirty
years or so
that the houses in Newfoundland lasted."
Page 1 Opinion Piece Viking America: Historical Archaeology
http://www.smcm.edu/Academics/soan/cneha/Number62.pdf

"...... Euro-American contact on both a casual cultural and
biological basis has to be assumed from at least 950 CE
on........"
continued article page 3 same url.

Now the Old paradigm is rocking and there is definitely a
large hole
in the brickwall that naysayers used to protest against
Pre-Columbian
contacts outside Newfoundland......

Inger E

Nothing is rocking because there is nothing new,
not even your selective quoting.

Here is the complete 'opinion piece', not worth
the 4 mb download:

" OPINION PIECE
Viking America: Historical Archaeology
by Michael Cohn
The existence of a Norse settlement in
Newfoundland is now generally accepted by
archaeologists and historians. Since the 1960s,
scattered finds of Norse artifacts from northern
Maine to Hudson Bay, as well as the excavation
of butternut husks in context at L'Anse aux
Meadows, make it almost certain that Norse
ships probably based at Greenland explored
America widely, both in space and time.
Ramah chert from Labrador has been found in
Greenland. Since the Greenland colony lasted
into the 15th century, it can be assumed that
the American mainland was utilized for furs,
falcons and timber beyond the thirty years or so
that the houses in Newfoundland lasted.

During the same period of time, Basque,
English and Norse fishermen hunted whales and
cod in the Western Atlantic. The possibility that
they landed on the American continent to dry
fish, obtain firewood and fresh water must be
given serious consideration. All of this places
historical archaeologists in a quandary.
The concept that the year 1500 CE divides
prehistoric from historic eras seems no longer
sustainable. Euro-American contact on both a
casual cultural and biological basis has to be
assumed from at least 950 CE on, and the early
official explorers are likely to have had more
than an inkling where they were headed. "

Not many people would dispute the possibility of Europeans
landing on the east coast. Maine and Labrador are still a long
way from Minnesota and North Dakota. It will take more than that
to rock the paradigm.

Alan

Alan,
you must have missed the line "....make it almost certain that Norse ships
probably based at Greenland explored America widely, both in space and
time...."

Apart from that you as well as Peter Alaca missed the most essential
information provided by many scholars the last two years. That Norse
artifacts been found in Hudson Bay. Supressed before now out in the open.

The Old paradigm is more than rocking, it's more or less into the chaos
before a new paradigm is formed.

Inger E


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