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From: Elsie Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L Language varieties" 2005.07.17 (10) [E]

Hi all,

Luc wrote about his posting on 'Yupik, and their Inuit brothers...'
>Sorry for making this post so long...but since it seems to be
>off-season, maybe few will bother.

It would have bothered if you did not share this info
with us! Thanks, I find such stories very interesting.

The National Geographic had an interesting piece a few years back
about the distances travelled by Polynesians.

Cheerio,
Elsie Zinszer

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Language varieties" [E]

> From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at pandora.be>
> Subject: Language varieties
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> [tx]More importantly, though, is that those who are skeptical about
> Inuit transatlantic voyages during the late seventeenth century
> apparently have not taken into account that Europe was gripped by a
> mini-Ice Age during this time; ice-core samplings have proven that its
> worst years were from 1680 to 1730--precisely the time of numerous
> sightings of kayakers around the British Isles. In light of this, what

I read this idea so long ago I can't even remember where I read it now!

It's also been suggested that the unification of Scotland with England came 
about due to the severe hardship suffered in Scotland during this ice age.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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From: heather rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.07.17 (10) [E]

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>The first evidence of long-distance small-boat travel may have been
found in Scotland (North Uist) and Ireland (County Down), where
archaeologists have located first-millennium sites that contain
Inuit-style tools.<

Add to this the new theory of how Clovis Points got to America!

Identical flints were being manufactured in ....................... France!
And the theory is that during the last ice age, these people in skins and
kayak type boats, crossed the Atlantic by hugging the edge of the ice in
true Inuit style.

Now that American archeology seems resigned to pushing back the date of
human arrival on the continent, maybe there is room for a few early French
stone age immigrants! c 14,000 yrs BC

Heather

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