From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 16865
Date: 2002-11-23
----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 11:14 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Early Atlantic crossing
--- In cybalist@..., "anthonyappleyard" <MCLSSAA2@...> wrote:
> When people move, they take their languages with them. It used to
be
> taken as dogma that when men moved from Siberia across the dry bed
of
> the Bering Sraits to Alaska in the Ice Age, they could get no
further
> until the ice melted back enough to make a corridor between the
> northern ice and the Rocky Mountains ice. But now I heard of a
theory
> that the Solutrean people of southwest France lived like Eskimos do
> now and crossed the Atlantic to America in Eskimo-type skin boats
> about 15000BC living by spearing seals etc and skirting the edge of
> the icepack and hauling out onto ice floes when they needed a rest.
I believe Guiness' says the longest range of sight is the view
ofIcelnd from the highest peak on the Faroe islands. That can't have
changed much.
Torsten
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