14,000-year-old village discovered in Canada one of oldest …

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CTV Vancouver Island News reports the discovery of a 14,000 year old village that is older than Egypt’s pyramids. The village was found off the coast of British Columbia, Canada on a rocky spit on Triquet Island.

Alisha Gauvreau, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Victoria and a researcher at the Hakai Institute who took part in the excavation work told the Canadian television network:

“I remember when we get the dates back and we just kind of sat there going, holy moly, this is old. What this is doing is just changing our idea of the way in which North America was first peopled.”

Experts believe a large human migration may have occurred on British Columbia’s coastline. But the discovery also matches the oral history of the Heiltsuk Nation, a First Nations government in British Columbia. According to the Heiltsuk Nation’s oral traditions, stories of ancient coastal villages have been passed down for generations.

Scientists said the artefacts being unearthed, which include tools for lighting fires, fish hooks and spears dating back to the Ice Age, are painting a picture of how civilisation began in North America.

 

JOHN ANTHONY WEST

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John Anthony West is an American author, lecturer, guide and a proponent of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis in geology. Born July 9, 1932 in New York City, his early career was as a copywriter in Manhattan and as a science fiction writer. He received a Hugo Award Honorable Mention in 1962.

In 1993 he came to my attention in an NBC documentary called “The Mystery of the Sphinx”. The dojohnanthonywest-slider2cumentary contends that the main type of weathering on the Sphinx and surrounding enclosure walls showed evidence of prolonged rainfall. Since the Sphinx is today in a desert region with little rain, the presence of weathering by rain would date the Sphinx to an earlier time when there had been extensive rainfall in this region. West suggested that the Sphinx may pre-date the Ancient Egyptian culture and may have originated between 10,000 to 5000 BCE. This challenged the conventional dating of the Sphinx of 2500 BCE.
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The documentary was presented by Charlton Heston and covered West’ work with Robert M. Schoch, a geologist and associate professor of natural science at the College of General Studies at Boston University. Although not well received by the academic community the documentary won West a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary.

Today John Anthony West is a leading proponent of the ‘Symbolist’ school of Egyptology which gives an alternative interpretation of ancient Egyptian culture. This concept was originally advanced by the French scholar and philosopher, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz. In the Symbolist view, Egyptian architecture and art reveal a richer and more universal wisdom than conventional Egyptology has assumed.

Science is often not ready to accept new information and I believe that all though some scientists agree with John Anthony West the majority are still firmly traditional in their belief of when the Sphinx was built.

Sadly I recently heard that John Anthony West at the age of 84  is suffering from advanced Cancer.  I wish him well.

The Art of Letting Go | The Minimalists | TEDxFargo

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I’ve recently being going through a phase of trying to clutter my house.  I’m not a hoarder exactly but have a hard times throwing somethings away.  Amongst the resent  chucked out was about three or maybe four large garbage bags full of VHS videos.  I looked up the internet to see if I could recycle them and found out even charity shops won’t take them anymore.  I even asked a girl delivering something at my door and her reply was “who has a machine to play those tapes these days?” or something close. Of course the accumulation of so many tapes happened over years.  They included the whole series of Star Trek the next generation, Voyager and DS9.  I’m a sci-fi fan that’s for sure. The tapes go back to the 80′ and rarely have been played this century.  When I was a teen-ager in the 70’s I used to buy pin on badges and put them on my bag and jacket.  It was trendy when saying trendy was “in.”  I still have the badges.  There’s so much I need to chuck and wish I had never bought so much.  I never these days, or rarely listen to CD’s.  I have about 50 or more.  Almost anything I was to listen to is on you tube or somewhere else.  This is all just useless clutter but I find it hard chucking it.  I moved around a lot as a kid and every time we moved my mother would throw almost everything I had away.  I think this has left me with a desire to hold on to my past.