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These are caves that have archaeological evidence of human migration from Siberia to North America. They found stuff like stone tools that date from about 40,000 years ago to about 12,000 years ago. It is what they used to "prove" that people walked to North America on what used to be a narrow land bridge over the Bering Straight.
One of the big discoveries was when they found man made fishing tools next to horse bones ... horses were extinct in North America after the last ice age, and these artifacts and bones were found in an area of the caves that would have been a dry plains area before the glaciers of the last ice age covered it ... it was then submerged under water for a while while when the glaciers melted about 10,000 years ago and is now only just barely above sea level. These tools and horse bones match the same sort of things found in sites in Siberia.
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by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on December 4th, 2007
Very interesting.
by Stableboy on December 4th, 2007
I lived near them for a while ... I spent 11 years in the Canadian Arctic.
by Takei-Shihan on December 4th, 2007
Why?
by Stableboy on December 4th, 2007
I dropped out of high school so I could work as an industrial first aid attendant ... getting paid to just wait for an accident meant I could finish my schooling by corrispondence while earning an income ... I'm the only person I know who is a high school drop out with a Ph.D. ... after a few years, I I bought a first aid treatment trailer, an ambulance, and took more courses in advanced first aid and industrial poisons & antidotes ... then I was getting 4 pay checks that added up to $350.00 per day for doing nothing ... $100.00 per day for first aid, $100.00 per day for bieng the safety supervisor, $75.00 per day for renting my ambulance, & $75.00 per day for renting my mobile treatment station.
by Takei-Shihan on December 4th, 2007
The job gave me time to study and time to practice martial arts ... and even when I was off with the military reserves on some training mission, I was still collecting an income from the rental of my ambulance and treatment trailer, while my replacement worker was only getting the first aid and safety supervisor pay.
by Takei-Shihan on December 4th, 2007
Wow, that's quite the story! So what do you do now, just teach martial arts?
by Stableboy on December 4th, 2007
that is my main part time job ... I also write software part time ...
by Takei-Shihan on December 4th, 2007
What a strange path you've followed! :)
by Stableboy on December 4th, 2007