MIT Study Shows Giant Oceangoing Rafts Spurred Growth of Pre-European Americas


	MIT Study Shows Giant Oceangoing Rafts Spurred Growth of Pre-European Americas

tabsey

3-25-2008 10:29 PM

190 views

tags:

travel, trade, earlier, than, you, thought

tabsey says:

Can't see where first class is.

2 Comments |

Add a Comment

3-26-2008 12:35 AM

papananook

urp...just kiddin'--i would LOVE a ride on one of those...

3-26-2008 1:04 AM

Rustee

And looking back in history from the other perspective, many Mesoamerican cultures share myths of bearded white men with "flying canoes" who taught various things like how to build and farm.

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Come Fly the Friendly Sk....ZZZZZZZaaaaappp!

How To Celebrate Life By Visiting The Dead

Stuck in the arctic ice that doesn’t exist

Libya 'retaliates' after Swiss charge Colo...

Higher Gas Prices = Lower Traffic Deaths

Join my new Facebook Group

More clips from tabsey

Downsizing Government to Death

'Emotional' Deans ready for Bledisloe clash

NZ students offer reward for Rice's arrest

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from March 25, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/45fdac7f-29b7-4c27-af83-61541aec6a37/AA67CECB-434C-440F-BDBC-335D2B65AD8F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/mit-research-sh.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/mit-research-sh.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/mit-research-sh.html"><DIV><A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/24/nf1097_bravepacific.jpg"><IMG width="320" height="254" border="0" src="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/images/2008/03/24/nf1097_bravepacific.jpg" title="Nf1097_bravepacific" alt="Nf1097_bravepacific" /></A>
Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, carrying trade goods for thousands of miles afrom modern-day Chile to western Mexico, according to new findings by MIT researchers. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/mit-research-sh.html"><P>Early Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch accounts of the Andean civilization
include descriptions and even drawings of the large oceangoing rafts,
but provided little information about their routes or the nature of the
goods they carried. The new research supports earlier evidence
documented by Dorothy Hosler, MIT Professor of
Archeology and Ancient Technology, that the two great centers of
pre-European civilization in the Americas-the Andes region and
Mesoamerica-had been in contact with each other and had longstanding
trading.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AA67CECB-434C-440F-BDBC-335D2B65AD8F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>