A manatee rib-NOT-too much marrow

[jamesp]

I just reread this thread and i concluded that i was close minded and stupid.But have a good point.Amazed at your research Helen-you are PHD in the research area and probably gets you in trouble(understated).Digging up all that info makes me look even stupider.But in my own words i wanted to make a point about confusion and lack of evidence which i overdid.I like my angle but not my delivery.
Awesome subject.And one that concerns me for several reasons.

I am having trouble loading the video.Adobe reader is giving me trouble.I had been reading the subject in other links-but not via the video.

[helens]

James, you are very far from stupid, and way more talented than me at many things. But I'm pretty fast at research of any type, and if I get curious about a subject, I am pretty good at exploring it from every angle fast. I have the bad habit of outputting so much data that I can lose the person reading it unless they reread multiple times slowly. On forums, that rarely happens.

If the video will not load, you probably have trouble with a video codec. You SHOULD have something that pops up to ask you if you want to install either Shockwave flash or Quicktime, Realplayer, or one of those. These are generally not security issues (or NO ONE could ever watch videos or TV on their computers), but different sites record their videos in different formats, and you probably should download them all, or you miss a whole lot on your computer that you aren't even aware you are missing. If it helps you view THIS video, it will probably help you view many other videos. It's well worth the time to figure out how to make the video run on your system.

One reason I appear to be on the forum more than I actually am, is I have 2 huge monitors, each one able to open 20 pages at a time, all visible on the screen, and can watch a movie or video or emails on the other monitor. I have the attention span of a gnat, so I go back and forth on multiple tasks at one time, because well, I have the attention span of a gnat:).

[jamesp]

I never have trouble w/porn-just kidding.
It is adobe flash player that has limited me in the past Helen.I think it is the same type of software as Realplayer,quicktime,etcI think i have the others.The only videos that give me trouble are those requesting Adobe.
I am sorry you have a gnat's brain.

[helens]

I take back the nice thing I said to you earlier then. LOL!

[jamesp]

Ha
Someday you ought to read up on William Bartram.He was hired by England to report what he saw.About late 1700.He passed thru Orlando area paddling the St Johns River.He reported on actual biology findings and asked to give accurate info.
A lot of interface w/American indian

[helens]

I think I've seen his flower prints before... pretty sure there's a small collection of them at the Orlando Museum of Art. Beautiful:).

Have you read A Land Remembered? Years ago, my best friend's mom, who was a native Florida Cracker, loaned it to me, and said if you live in Florida, you MUST read this book. It is a story of the first white settlers to Florida, and what they went through.

Here it is on Amazon, but you can get it at the library and bookstores too:
www.amazon.com/Land-Remembered-Patrick-D-Smith/dp/1561641162

It's a modern historical novel, so very easy to read (old historical novels are teeth numbingly boring). Something to read on hot summer nights in your Florida camp, and you can pass it around the family when you're done. Especially since part of the book talks about the land you will be sitting on:).

[jamesp]

Too funny.I do not spend much time reading.And up w/the sun and down w/the sun in Florida.But that book has entertained me and is in my little upstairs 'safe room' where i get away from the critters to sleep.I got several other books written by the early snow birds who tamed and settled Florida.Clarence Bloomfield Moore is my favorite Florida archeologist-from the steamboat era.

[bhiatt]

May 26, 2013 11:29:55 GMT -5 jamesp said:

I like finding them Brad.Sometimes more interested in the topography/living conditions/why they were there stuff.The fact that those guys were there blow my mind.I see pretty settings w/good flat area,spring,caoneable river close by.No taxes,fish,hunt,collect rocks,no taxes,go mostly where you want.May have been the life!

Its pretty dang cool that you find the stuff ancient man once used and you were the first to discover them. I think Id have goosebumps if I found some of the stuff you have found.

I mean how much practice do you have to have to get an arrowhead symetrical like some of the ones you have. Some look almost dead on. Im shure it takes quite a bit of practice.
I like all the pictures you post of your trips. Same things I like to do.
You turn that ol river coral into pieces of art.

[jamesp]

Thanks Brad.It is obvious those folks were very active.You see the signs at Cahokia in your front yard.Imagine walking up on a bunch of them in full leather.Scary thought,worse than Gimp and Pulp Fiction situation.Those mound folks are a little too medieval to sleep close to their mounds LOL.
I bet the heat is starting in on you at work.It has been a hot dry 87 here.Hotter in my little valley.Even way hotter in the greenhouses haha.
I quite smoking a couple years ago and gained weight.Getting back down to fighting weight w/all this heat.Maybe i'll be ready for you ina year or so!

[bhiatt]

oh yeah the higher temps are starting. Around 90 this week and humid. Worked a yard yesterday and spread seed and straw. Had a good sweat going on. Thats about the only good thing about high temps is losing some winter weight.

[parfive]

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Dirty old teeth again.


Human ancestors' diet changed 3.5 million years ago

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22752937

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[jamesp]

Looks like vegetative foods were consumed making you wonder if they were changing or they were chimp like.Since chimps are fond of plant food.Are you a dentist?kidding LOL.Very interesting.Do you think we evolved?People showed interest in this post.I think a lot of older folks are curious about creation and what God's involvement is,what new findings,new technology.Hell,i am 56 and beat to hell.I would love to know the real story.
I did want to dig my heels in about my amateur archeology findings.That i feel stuff i find is very new and not 500,000 years in the ground.That is gut feeling.But i visit sights for years and years and often find way more artifacts than a 12 man dig by the pros.Because i find spots where they can't dig.Like parking my car and walking out in the middle of a construction site w/out permission many times.The 100 sites the big local university dug all were bland.Devoid.
Anyway.I will stop.Thanks for the link.I am looking forward to DNA collections to put a puzzle together.