That is interesting, but there is so much pseudoscience with Atlantis, I
steer far from it.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
Lots of information on creation/evolution
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Crowl" <qraal@hotmail.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: America inhabited at least by 15,000 - 18000 years ago
>
>
> >From: "glenn morton" <mortongr@flash.net>
> >To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> >Subject: America inhabited at least by 15,000 - 18000 years ago
> >Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:25:00 -0000
> >
> >I have been hearing rumors of Cactus Hill for about a year now but have
> >been
> >unable to find much on it. This is a site in Virginia which has yielded
> >evidence of habitation as early as 15,000 years ago. Reports are to be
> >found at:
> >http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/04/07/earlyamericans.ap/index.html
> >
> >http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/04/07/earlyamericans.ap/index.html
> >
> >If true, then it does raise the possibility that Solutreans from Europe
> >were
> >the first inhabitants of the New World. The tools found in some early
sites
> >in North America are similar to tools found in Spain about 20,000 years
> >ago.
> >And an mtDNA type, X, is found only in Spain and Turkey, but not in Asia!
> >
> >http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0799toc/7special14-genes.shtml
> >
>
> On that thought it's interesting that there seems to be a cross-Atlantic
> connection for this time period. A fascinating book that I read is Mary
> Stettegast's [1990] "Plato, Prehistorian" which examines the
archaeological
> evidence from the time period that Plato gives for "Atlantis" and the
> Atlanto-Athenian war [c.10,500 - 7,500 BC]... some interesting
correlations
> are found including evidence of a broad-ranging European culture, as well
as
> the Tanged-Point Technocomplex that suggests war in that period [as well
as
> Fortress Jericho from c. 8000 BC.]
>
> Plato actually mentions the Americas in his description of the Atlantean
> Empire... hmmm...
>
> Kind of off-base for the ASA list but I found the parallels between
Plato's
> war and "and the Earth was filled with violence" of Genesis to be
> interesting. Both eras ended with a Flood.
>
> Adam
>
>
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