A group of fishermen in Bulgaria are responsible for an important archaeological discovery. Just recently, they announced that, while trailing their fishing nets along the bottom of the Black Sea, searching for their daily catch, they came across what appeared to be an ancient canoe, possibly dating back to the prehi... |
1 December 2008
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The name that the press has given this case is really worthy of being on the cover of an Agatha Christie novel or at the very least a "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" episode: "The Canoe Man Mystery". Oh, the original Scooby Doo, not the one with Scrappy Doo or the other big white hillbilly-yokel type of relative, I forg... |
6 December 2007
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Before Columbus and the Vikings, other sailors could have entered the Americas: the Polynesians. This is strongly suggested by chickens grown by tribes in Peru and Chile, which do not have European ancestry, but Polynesian, but also by some cultural facts common to tribes of the Amazon and Malayo-Polynesians from Ind... |
1 October 2007
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The old tools and techniques are increasingly replaced by modern technology. Many will be known only through data gathered by anthropologists. 50 years ago, Japanese people in the islands of Tanegashima employed canoes made of trunks of giant pines for fishing. The crafting of the canoes was made during special cerem... |
19 July 2007
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