Re: In the News: Tenn. AG: No constitutional concerns with

in article 1179567804.748789.179580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
richardalanforrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx at richardalanforrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote
on 5/19/07 2:43 AM:

On May 19, 5:41 am, George Evans <georg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

in article slrnf4rgb6.3g4.mightymartia...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, AC at
mightymartia...@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 5/18/07 8:08 AM:

On Fri, 18 May 2007 03:09:39 GMT,
George Evans <georg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated the plausibility of Egyptians making it to the
middle of the Pacific Ocean.

What he didn't do was actually demonstrate that they had done it. Nor did
he demonstrate that it was necessary for them to have done so to transplant
the pyramid culture. His own (in my opinion) superficial understanding of
Meso-American culture lead him to a rather foolish conclusion. There's not
much evidence that the Egyptians were ever a meaningfully seafaring people.

Maybe that's debatable, but what do you do about ancient megalithic stone
builders stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the middle of the
Pacific Ocean whoever they were.

Let's see:
Megalithic stone structures on Malta - about 3,000 BC (which is sort
of middle Mediterranean, not eastern Med)
Pyramid Builders in Egypt: about 2,600 - 2,000 BC
Avebury megalithic henge monument: about 3,000 BC
Stonehenge (the errection of large sarsen trilothons) - about 2,500 BC

Easter Island - about 1400 AD

Note: There's a gap of about 3,000 years.

Your Easter Island date is highly suspect if you are trying to place the
beginning of megalithic activity.

Oh, and the pyramids of Central America were built between about 200 AD and
1400 AD

I notice you left out the heavyweights in South America, including the
champ, Sacsahuamen.

Humans got the idea everywhere independently to move gigantic rocks around?

Why the hell not? Do you think that ancient cultures were stupid or something?

Quit the opposite. The overarching concept seems to me to be a worldwide
network of highly advanced cultures that disappeared in a short span of
time, leaving us to sort out the history.

Incidentally, one of the reasons why they moved large rocks around was because
they hadn't invented the arch, which makes it possible to span large spaces.
Why do you think that the Romans, though capable of moving large rocks around
when it suited them, usually used concrete to span large spaces?

This is weak. Very few of the megalithic sites were arches or ruins of
arches. That answer is more of a hand wave.

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George Evans

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