Who Dat? Where dat? Wendat?

[4est_4est_Gump]

Today New York City is the Big Apple of the Northeast but new research reveals that 500 years ago, at a time when Europeans were just beginning to visit the New World, a settlement on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in Canada, was the biggest, most complex, cosmopolitan place in the region.

Occupied between roughly A.D. 1500 and 1530, the so-called Mantle site was settled by the Wendat (Huron). Excavations at the site, between 2003 and 2005, have uncovered its 98 longhouses, a palisade of three rows (a fence made of heavy wooden stakes and used for defense) and about 200,000 artifacts. Dozens of examples of art have been unearthed showing haunting human faces and depictions of animals, with analysis ongoing.

Now, a scholarly book detailing the discoveries is being prepared and a documentary about the site called "Curse of the Axe" aired this week on the History Channel in Canada.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012...ada-discovered/?intcmp=features#ixzz20P59fgfM


So why is my great-granddad buried in the KCK Huron cemetery?

 

[Cheyenne]

I read this yesterday in the news.

'For instance, among Mantle's discoveries are the earliest European goods ever found in the Great Lakes region of North America, predating the arrival of the first known European explorers by a century. They consist of two European copper beads and a wrought iron object, believed to be part of an ax, which was carefully buried near the center of the settlement.' I thought this was one of the more interesting comments.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yes, I think by now that it has been well-documented that what we loosely call the Vikings were very intimate with this side of the pond at a very early time-frame.

 

[RoryCockGobbler]

Yes, I think by now that it has been well-documented that what we loosely call the Vikings were very intimate with this side of the pond at a very early time-frame.

Yup. They raped the women.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Yes, I think by now that it has been well-documented that what we loosely call the Vikings were very intimate with this side of the pond at a very early time-frame.

There's no doubt about it, anymore.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There's no doubt about it, anymore.

I'm sure there's got to be some doubt...



CHOOT 'im 'Lizbeth! Choot 'im!

 

[Byron In Exile]

I'm sure there's got to be some doubt...

CHOOT 'im 'Lizbeth! Choot 'im!

No doubt.

Fucking Norse bastards wrote everything in code.

It's been decoded now.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No doubt.

Fucking Norse bastards wrote everything in code.

It's been decoded now.

Looks like the Spanish missed some codex in their Gawdly house-cleaning...

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!

I don't know why, but I always yell Holy Moly!
(The Big Bang Theory)