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| Africa: North |
| Mexico, Egypt teaming up for excavation |
| 2005-08-16 |
| Posted by:Ebbolutch Thavick3284 |
| #5 Also the crew at "60 Minutes" |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-08-16 12:27 |
| #4 "Supreme Council of Antiquities" would be another way of describing the national government of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, UAE, Oman and alot of other wonderful places. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-08-16 11:52 |
| #3 "Yep. There was very, very little attention paid to the complete overturning of the Clovis-first timeline this year. That's 30 years or more of scholarship and excavation that has to be re-evaluated." Hell hath no fury like an archeologist overturned. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-08-16 11:51 |
| #2 The great irony of such much time, effort and money is that it has only given the barest outline of the history of the Americas, and one that is not even stable--whose greatest axioms are still regularly challenged. Yep. There was very, very little attention paid to the complete overturning of the Clovis-first timeline this year. That's 30 years or more of scholarship and excavation that has to be re-evaluated. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-08-16 07:27 |
| #1 In North and especially central and South America, there is such a staggering number of major archeological sites that many are catalogued and "forgotten". Even buried great cities. The reason being that it may be fifty or a hundred years before there are enough experts and money to even dig them up. Even existing sites like Chaco Canyon, NM (100 years of excavation), and Tikal, Guatemala (50 years of excavation), are still taking large amounts of resources for new discoveries. And the pace of new discoveries that cannot be explored is still increasing. Satellite observation alone has discovered dozens of previously unknown edifices. The great irony of such much time, effort and money is that it has only given the barest outline of the history of the Americas, and one that is not even stable--whose greatest axioms are still regularly challenged. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-08-16 00:31 |