Dear List,
Here is some additional information for those that
were unaware of the Cambridge Conference on meteorite
impacts-Historic and Prehistoric myths and folklore.
There is some very interesting reading on this
website below.
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc102898.html
Thank you Ed, I found the link for the Ainu myth on
the internet. I appreciate your alerting me to this
myth. Best Regards!
Link to Cambridge Conference on Meteorite Impacts
relating to human cultures.
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc102898.html
Dirk Ross...Tokyo
--- E.P. Grondine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dirk, all -
Thanks for this valuable link. Since Benny's taken
the
Cambridge Conference over to global warming
scepticism, impact researchers have lacked a global
clearing house
for immediate information exchange. If you think
that
I'm bitter about this, you'd be right - there's
nothing like loosing a key tool along with a stroke.
While the Brazilian team's English is certainly
better
than my Portugese, their translation is still rough.
(I wish I were on a beach in Brazil sorting it out
for
them, instead of here in Illinois with a frozen car.
By the way, your own work in English is formidable.)
Masse has been published now, and I assume that his
papers are already in your bibliography.
I myself brought up the constellation jaguar here
on
the meteorite list about 5 years ago. The city of
Cuzco is laid out in the shape of a jaguar, and this
is not incidental. If I remember correctly Harold
Osborne was working through Andean astronomical
systems, though I have not seen his book yet.
One important work to be done at Campo de Cielo will
be to look for the products of neutron and proton
release. The impact may not have been massive
enough
for that to have happened, but it will need to be
checked someday.
The absolute date for the Campo de Cielo impact is
17 February, 2325. It was observed by the Zoque
(olmec) in Central America. We know this from the
Maya
inscriptions, and because the Thompson correlation
has
been confirmed since I published, as the absolute
date
for the Rio Cuarto impacts:
25 October, 2,360 BCE has been confirmed by tree
ring
studies. For an introduction, see my book Man and
Impact in the Americas, pages 95-115.
Why is this date important to us now? I still think
that there are meteoritic streams which the Earth
encounters every so often, though working through
the
orbital mechanics of this is well beyond me now.
Elemental matches between different dated meteorite
falls may be of great aide in sorting this out.
I had intended to write up some Cherokee meteorite
lore for Meteorite magazine, but was distracted by
the
attack on Hibben's observations. I also wanted to
work
through the Casa Grande materials, but was
distracted
from this as well.
Once again, thanks for the link. By the way, did you
ever see the Ainu impact account which I recovered?
It
should be in the Cambridge Conference Archives at
the
University of Georgia.
E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas
PS - your font size showed up too big in firefox.
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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:32 -0800 (PST)
From: drtanuki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorites of Campo del
Cielo:Impact on the
Indian Culture
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Dear List,
Below is an article about the Campo del Ceilo
impact
related to:
Meteorites and Meteor Impact in Archaeology,
Anthropology, Ethnography: Folklore, Language, and
Culture as Evidence- A Bibliography in
Contruction.
...if you wish to participate please contact me
drtanukiATyahoo.com
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