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Subject: [Homestead] Anthropology
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:42:34 -0500
Today, I am listening to Hawaiian music. Keahli'i Reichel.
I was meditating and just letting the music move me, when I suddenly
realized that the words and the rhythm of the songs remind me very much
of what I would call Native American music of both North America and
South America. It just made me rethink the Polynesian connection to the
population and exploration of the Americas. Maybe mankind originally
came across the Bering land bridge, but I wonder if that asteroid/comet
that exploded over North America (aka the Clovis Comet) 13000 years ago
might have wiped out much of that population and then the continent was
possibly repopulated from South and Central America by the descendants
of the Polynesian culture. I think I will re-read Kontiki, by Thor
Heyerdahl.
B
--
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race"