Welcome friends and I do hope you have a great weekend…..I will be posting little and enjoying nice weather……
I have written about an archaeologists , Sarah Parcak, who uses satellites top find long missing historical sites…..she has found hundreds of once unknown sites, most of which wait for excavation……she is just amazing and I am glad to see that she is getting the recognition that she deserves……
I have written about Dr. Parcak before for her new program to locate unknown historical sites worldwide…….
Source: “Space Archaeology” – In Saner Thought
Scientists have been trying to locate another North American site for the Vikings…..it appears that Dr. Parcak and her “space” equipment may have done just that…….
A “high-tech Indiana Jones” may have just done what no one else has been able to for 55 years: find a second Viking settlement in North America, the Washington Post reports. “Typically in archaeology, you only ever get to write a footnote in the history books, but what we seem to have at Point Rosee may be the beginning of an entirely new chapter,” archaeologist Sara Parcak tells the BBC. Parcak used images taken by satellites 400 miles above the Earth to find what appeared to be evidence that Vikings made it hundreds of miles further into North America than previously known. Parcak has used the same technique to find 17 pyramids, 1,000 tombs, and 3,000 forgotten settlements. But this newest discovery could change everything we know about Vikings in North America.
The first—and so far only—Viking settlement in North America was found in 1960 at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, the New York Times reports. Parcak’s site is 300 miles southwest at Point Rosee. After spotting discolorations and patterns in the satellite images, she had to hike through bogs and forests while worrying about bear attacks to confirm her suspicions. Some digging revealed a stone cracked by fire, scraps of iron ore, and Viking-style turf walls. “Either it’s … an entirely new culture that looks exactly like the Norse,” Parcak tells the Post, “or it’s the westernmost Norse site that’s ever been discovered.” And that means there could more undiscovered sites showing Vikings settled deep into North America hundreds of years before the arrival of Columbus. (A hiker found a 1,200-year-old Viking sword.)
If you would like to learn more about this young lady’s amazing discoveries……
Source: Possible Viking Find Could Rewrite North American History
I am very impressed this woman’s work….so much so I have volunteered to be part of the “group” that pours over satellite images looking for undiscovered sites….I am hoping that I can view the Middle East for these sites.
How strange…I watched the Viking documentary on her the other day….
good post..
thanx
Thanx…I like her style….chuq
I am always interested in new archaeological finds, especially when they reinforce the simple fact we don’t know history as well as we think we do. Since we are continuously finding new ‘old’ stuff left lying about by old civilizations, it’s pretty clear we DON’T know much at all…
Kind of like how we ignore our own nature, to our undying regret…. We don’t know history, we don’t know ourselves…. yet, we think we are so advanced as a civilization.
Pathetic little monkeys, aren’t we?…. Interesting, though…
Great post; she’s doing excellent work….
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Very pathetic…..chuq
I don’t just “like” this post, I truly enjoyed it! But chuq, where do you get the time, don’t you ever sleep? dru
Very little….I have pain issues that makes me have bad insomnia….but keeps my mind busy and that is what is important…..chuq
You sometimes but seldom refer to the pain and I ache, not real pain, a lot so you have my sympathy but I was also talking about your prolific volume of posting here and other places; your teaching, reading and research; and lest we forget, children – pets – and partner! You have my admiration and you give me a reason to get up at all. THANX! dru
ps: Check out my video of the actual Mark Twain. me
Excellent vid….very accurate summation……Twain was very astute for his day….chuq
Yes I’m in love with Twain and “Letters from the Earth” changed my life but I was actually referring to the Edison Kinetoscope of the “real” Mark Twain, not the words from Holbrook, who was magnificent in my mind too. dru
I appreciate your kind words….I was taught that you soldier on if the “on” is important…..my attempts are important…at least to me…..chuq
Could she find my shoe-horn for me? Last week, I walked to the car with it still in my hand. I searched the car, but I can’t find it. It must have fallen out somewhere outside. It’s a great shoe-horn and I really miss it.
I’ll keep a look out for the shoe-horn but of course the “Eye” will be a far better aide if you can get her attention. In case you can’t get a personal appointment, is the horn Tortoise shell? That might make a difference on whether I let you know if I find it. dru
If the sat can pic it we can find it…..I mean we can count the nose hairs on a “terrorist” then your shoe horn should be a piece of cake
Reblogged this on saywhatumean2say and commented:
This fascinates me. Not so much as I want to be there to see the evacuation; more like, LOOK there is a REASON for those satellites, AND it might just be that they are spying on you….but shit, old Viking Camps are being spied on too. dru
Thanx for the re-blog…I appreciate it. chuq