Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas

["Charles Knouse" charles@xxxxxxxx]

I think the original americans did indeed cross from syberia or mongolia or
wherever over there, but I remember a documentary that said that
paleontologists have now dated human remains (or was it human dwellings)
that are far older, by many tens of thousands of years, than the retreat of
the glaciers, so it appears the crossings were originally made on ice or by
sea, not by the Bering Straits land bridge per se.

Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "mike shupp" 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas


> Not to mention that as the ice retreated 12,000 years or so ago,
> and Berengia (that 1000-mile across "land bridge') disappeared
> below the rising waters, roughly a fifty mile wide stretch of
> North American coastal land did the same -- very likely in the
> course of a single decade.
>
> if that wouldn't inspire widespread flood stories, what would?
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Leslie Bialler 
> Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:37:38 -0400
>
> Hmm and hmm . . .
>
> Well I can see how that could have happened. Isn't there a theory that
> the Indians came here from Asia via "land bridge" which is now the
> Bering Strait. It makes sense, doesn't it?
>
>
> Brucefelk@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Leslie bialler writes:
> > >I have read that many cultures have myths that speak of a
> > great flood, and that some people attribute this to the idea that there
> > was flooding in the Middle East at the end of the last ice age.<
> >
> > In researching a local history, I learned five years ago that
Potawatomi
> > Indians had a myth structure incorporating a great flood strikingly
> similar
> > to that of the biblical account, including the good deity's
motivations.
> >
> > Bruce Felknor
>
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