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To: jjrgspab who wrote (8097)	11/27/2017 5:45:56 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Hi jrg, long time no type ... noticed you on CD's thread a few days ago, knew i'd known you from somewhere ... just looked back on my last reply to you, yes it could be interpreted as snotty, but wouldn't have been intended as such, just appears to be one of my periodic reactions to extended off-topic ... which is somewhat hypocritical here, as the original impulse to start up this thread was to have a place to post where i couldn't be accused of off-topic [and immediately stimulated at the time, if memory serves, by a beer and a half buzz] ... so it wasn't meant to be seriously critical, at least not at anyone other than myself ... and EC of course, which would always be in order That particular topic, the extent to which prehistoric man moved around the globe, has been a lifetime wonder for me - it never seemed that building reasonably seaworthy watercraft was anywhere near rocket science, having put together various rafts and small boats myself at very few years of age ... young men have always wanted to see what's over the next hill, or around the next headland, and there would have been many periods through the millennia when the quest for food brought exploration to the front of mind ... true that the use of iron really helps in boatbuilding, but people have crossed oceans without it, Thor Heyerdahl for one, and there have been others ... plus ocean ice in colder times would have formed bridges, and there were all those thousands of years, it just never sounded reasonable that Leif Ericson would be the first to cross the Atlantic, only one millennium back However, genetic evidence is not so far supporting any fraction of blood from Europe in pre-columbian Americas ... as i understand it, last i scanned anything on it, and that was neither deep nor recent ... there is a lot to wonder about - near our down-south place, the Olmec heads sure look african, the man who introduced me to my wife had strongly held theories on that, along with comparative photos and a list of academics who were looking into it ... but no genetics to back it up, not yet anyway Archaeology - you'll find this interesting - Subject 50353 ... and yes, i'd be interested in your book, pass me title and ISBN if you like ... had no idea you were involved in the subject to this extent eso.v - your first post on CD's thread this year, you mention ESO [which was its name, right?] ... well i had that too, from very low prices, it was a tax-loss time pickup if memory serves, four or eight cents, something like that, to a many-bagger, i sold too much too soon but still did very well, together with Goldquest gqc.v which also ran from pennies to something like two loonies, they saved my fiscal 2012 from utter disaster, had a small net-net profit or loss that year, felt like massive victory after the thrashing everything else got, so it's fondly remember ... gqc is my contest pick this year, needs kick in the ass in the form of mining permit for Romero, in a jurisdiction where they don't much care about my contest deadlines, dang ... anyway good to hear from you, cheers