Re: Heart of Cibola <partly off-topic, long reply>
Don Jose, el Tropical Tramp wrote
Good morning ORO: I am afraid that is something that they WILL have to face someday soon.. Ancient history and migration paths are constantly being revised.
Ex. the Aleutians land bridge migration route is now seriously being questioned as the primary source of immigration to the Americas, plus intriguing information is being leaked that perhaps man has been in the Americas since the first division of the applicable tectonic plate movement started, as is possible in the Austraiian case..
This means that possibly the Caucasian race was here, until being displaced (eliminated ) by the present "Native Americans" in their later migration from Asia.
In our lifetime I believe that the location of Atlantis, as we in here have found, will be confirmed.
It is increasingly possible that civilization such as we call it, has flourished various times only to completely disappear and the proces of evolution starts over again.
Cibola, or at least an accurate description of it, and artifacts have been shown to be in the Valley of Conojaque on the Border between Sinaloa and Durango. I believe that it has been named as a world heritage site by the UN.
Don Jose de La Mancha
Hola amigo,
I only have a few minutes but wanted to check in and found your interesting replies. I fear that we are drifting ever farther off-topic in our speculations. As our mutual amigo Springfield already posted, your proposed location of Atlantis is as yet, unproven, and the extreme depths of water in that location makes the possibility of a field examination quite unlikely for some time. Also, I remain <respectfully> unconvinced that it IS the correct location; especially since I convinced myself that Atlantis actually lies in a quite different location which I will make public in the book. <
If I ever get that done to my satisfaction and can locate a publisher willing to buy it, haha .>
I also am respectfully unconvinced about your proposed location for Cibola, despite being designated as a World Heritage site, due to the various early Spanish and French sources which seem to indicate a true location far to the north, quite possibly the Mandan villages on the Missoui river in fact.
I am in agreement with you that it seems quite probable that a civilization, perhaps several in fact, which arose during the last Ice Age, have been utterly destroyed by natural calamities leaving only 'legends' of their former glories. The evidence has been slowly mounting to support this contention, however the use of the term "advanced" in describing such ancient civilizations per their levels of technology and culture may well be a bit too liberal. If we re-examine the ancient sources that refer to such very ancient (Ice Age) civilizations, the most advanced technology appears to be plumbing. As deep-sea exploration progresses, we may yet find more evidences of a higher level of technology for those Ice-age people, but so far nothing seems to indicate any technology higher than Roman empire age, as in plumbing, domestication of horses, the use of metals etc.
As for the routes and origins of the first Americans, this area of study is likewise in a state of flux almost on a daily basis. The land bridge theory so widely accepted is at last being questioned, and alternate (sea) routes being taken more seriously as a probable route for the earliest colonists. The finding of Australoid type peoples here in the Americas which could predate the Caucasoid certainly raises issues with the whole land-bridge theory and questions exactly which group of people really were the first to arrive, and reinforces the concept that the Americas have never been truly and utterly isolated from the rest of the world; being in truth a 'melting pot' of the races of man apparently for a very long time. One other point on this off-topic issue, that the Caucasoid peoples do not seem to have been utterly eliminated by later Asiatic colonists arriving in the Americas, as a sizable minority of Amerindian tribes have been found to carry the "haplogroup X" sub-type of DNA which is found only in European peoples; indicating that at least some portion (perhaps as much as 5%) of Amerindians trace their ancient ancestry not to east Asia but to Europe, and there never was a land bridge across the Atlantic. This area of study is turning up new information almost daily, so we may see changes for our history books in the very near future.
My apologies for going so far off topic, if it is too far just ask the moderators to delete it or send me a PM and I can remove it. Have to sign off but will check in later this evening.
Roy
