ah, but what about the thinking in some quarters that the pre-Clovis  
culture, more and more widely accepted now, was more nearly identical  
to the European Ice Age stone points and technology than anything  
found so far in Siberia, to which they bear no resemblance at all? So  
the Jamestown folks may be more right than they know. They have  
recently re-tested Clovis site evidence using much more sophisticated  
modern testing methods [not the decades old methods they were relying  
on]and found it is somewhat more recent that they thought, which, as  
many experts now say, "puts the last nail in the coffin of the Clovis- 
first theory" [though some experts are still holding out in the  
Clovis camp]. Since we are discovering more and more what a water- 
borne culture early man was, I see no reason why some Ice Age  
Europeans couldn't have paddled their skin boats on a hunting  
expedition around the North Atlantic ice floes and to America, it  
would be a much shorter trip than the Siberia to America one [which  
they now speculate might have been at least partly by boat, and not  
all by foot].

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Mar 3, 2007, at 5:43 PM, James Brothers wrote:

> Unless they have created a new hunt diorama, it is interesting to  
> note that the "Indian" is holding his arrow using a three fingered  
> European grip. It was pointed out years ago that it was wrong, but  
> Jamestown's attitude was that no one would notice and it really  
> didn't matter.
>
> James Brothers, RPA
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> On Mar 2, 2007, at 20:35, Melinda Skinner wrote:
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>> Both "museums" are mired in political correctness...
>> the great bureacratic fear of the 21st century.
>>
>> --
>> Melinda C. P. Skinner
>> Richmond, VA
>>
>>
>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Very interesting, thanks for posting this. I mostly agree. History
>>> had to be broadened and made more equitable [I shake my head at some
>>> of the things we were taught in Richmond Public Schools] , but it
>>> seems that in many ways it has gone too far. I can willingly
>>> acknowledge my many failing to my fellow humans, the times I've been
>>> stupid and careless, those I have hurt, but please, can I celebrate
>>> my birthday without carrying around a total guilt package? I am more
>>> than the compendium of my sins. As are we all. Hair shirts are never
>>> productive garments to wear 24/7.
>>>
>>> Nancy
>>>
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>>> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>>>
>>> --Daniel Boone
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