[meteorite-list] Field work on Campo de Cielo

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:24:47 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <300350.8027.qm_at_web53205.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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" <epgrondine at yahoo.com> 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.
>
> > Message: 7
> > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:45:32 -0800 (PST)
> > From: drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorites of Campo del
> > Cielo:Impact on the
> > Indian Culture
> > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Message-ID:
> > <759559.12519.qm at web53209.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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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
> >
> > Page Created: 20JAN08
>
>
>
>
>
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