7,000-year-old Native American burial site found off Florida - Sensationalist Headlines

[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43248791[/URL] [QUOTE]rchaeologists have uncovered a Native American burial site dating back 7,000 years off the coast of Florida.The site was found by an amateur diver in 2016 who was looking for shark teeth but stumbled on an ancient jawbone. In a picture sent from the diver, archaeologist Ryan Duggins noticed a worn down molar tooth attached to the jawbone. This suggested it belonged to a prehistoric person. Florida state officials called the find an "unprecedented discovery". Mr Duggins and his team began investigating the site from the "Archaic Period" located 900ft (275m) from shore. The burial grounds are expected to cover about 32,000 sq feet (3,000 sq metres) off the coast of Manasota Key. Underwater, the team found densely packed organic remains, human bones, and sharpened wooden stakes and textile fragments, according to National Geographic. "Seeing a 7,000-year-old site that is so well preserved in the Gulf of Mexico is awe inspiring," Mr Duggins said in a press release from the Florida Department of State. "We are truly humbled by this experience."[/QUOTE] Awesome.

A fascinating discovery!

I just hope no one goes down there and starts messing with it, discoveries like this need to be properly examined and handled rather than some idiot diving on down to take what he can and sell it off.

I'm pretty sure this corner of the US gets fucked by enough natural disasters. Do we really need to anger the spirits so they get even more?

[QUOTE=Pw0nageXD;53171136]I'm pretty sure this corner of the US gets fucked by enough natural disasters. Do we really need to anger the spirits so they get even more?[/QUOTE] I know right? They get so many disasters it is as if Florida was built on an ancient Indian burial ground or something.

[QUOTE=Pw0nageXD;53171136]I'm pretty sure this corner of the US gets fucked by enough natural disasters. Do we really need to anger the spirits so they get even more?[/QUOTE] Maybe we're the reason why. They're sick of our fuckin' boats.

I can't even imagine "America" (I know we definitely didn't have that name back then) during that time, let alone what kind of Natives lived here and looked like. We know so little to begin with, we hear so little as well about history before Columbus, Ponce De Leon, etc. In a lot of ways, history makes it sound like there were very few people living in the south, like states such as Florida and Georgia; as well as very few further West than like Tennessee. I'm very curious what they'll learn. I know as a "British"/white country, we're 240+yrs old, but obviously things go further back to the 1600s and even earlier. But again, we still hear so little about that, where as with Europe and Asia, there is plenty of history from times even earlier than that.

[QUOTE=NO ONE;53171154]I can't even imagine "America" (I know we definitely didn't have that name back then) during that time, let alone what kind of Natives lived here and looked like. We know so little to begin with, we hear so little as well about history before Columbus, Ponce De Leon, etc. In a lot of ways, history makes it sound like there were very few people living in the south, like states such as Florida and Georgia; as well as very few further West than like Tennessee. I'm very curious what they'll learn. I know as a "British"/white country, we're 240+yrs old, but obviously thinks go further back to the 1600s and even earlier. But again, we still hear so little about that, were as with Europe and Asia, there is plenty of history from times even earlier than that.[/QUOTE] Heck, even the oldest countries still in existence today we're founded back in the past less than half that time. Japan and China are around 3,000 years old minus some change IIRC.

[QUOTE=NO ONE;53171154]I can't even imagine "America" (I know we definitely didn't have that name back then) during that time, let alone what kind of Natives lived here and looked like. We know so little to begin with, we hear so little as well about history before Columbus, Ponce De Leon, etc. In a lot of ways, history makes it sound like there were very few people living in the south, like states such as Florida and Georgia; as well as very few further West than like Tennessee. I'm very curious what they'll learn. I know as a "British"/white country, we're 240+yrs old, but obviously thinks go further back to the 1600s and even earlier. But again, we still hear so little about that, were as with Europe and Asia, there is plenty of history from times even earlier than that.[/QUOTE] Our current understanding/assumptions about what they were like is actually wild. The native population was spread across much of the continental US, with presumably a few million strong population divided into countless tribes, clans, and otherwise. They had decent sized cities and trade established across paths that linked a long long way. They were pre-industrial in every way but still had massive numbers on their side. But the issue was that disease from the Europeans spread at epidemic levels across the native population and postitovely destroyed countless thousands of lives in doing so. As our ancestors moved west, they encountered natives, but only who was left. The economic damage they had suffered from disease destroyed many tribes, left many areas empty and abandoned. The Europeans just moved right in to more or less pre existing towns and recolonized them destroying much of the native culture as they went.

It doesn’t help that the Americans lacked beasts of burden like Horses or cattle which greatly assist with agriculture and trade, and also help harden populations to disease through zoonosis. Also, the trade cities north of Mexico usually didn’t last long due to a lack of good supplies/metal tools. Cahokia comes to mind. They basically ran out of trees and the waters started eroding everything. All that’s left is a big square dirt pile. Makes you wonder if the Horse wasn’t made extinct in NA.

[QUOTE=Pw0nageXD;53171136]I'm pretty sure this corner of the US gets fucked by enough natural disasters. Do we really need to anger the spirits so they get even more?[/QUOTE] would explain all the ship wrecks.

[QUOTE=RikohZX;53171135]I just hope no one goes down there and starts messing with it ...[/QUOTE] Sometimes, dead is better.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;53171283]Our current understanding/assumptions about what they were like is actually wild. The native population was spread across much of the continental US, with presumably a few million strong population divided into countless tribes, clans, and otherwise. They had decent sized cities and trade established across paths that linked a long long way. They were pre-industrial in every way but still had massive numbers on their side. But the issue was that disease from the Europeans spread at epidemic levels across the native population and postitovely destroyed countless thousands of lives in doing so. As our ancestors moved west, they encountered natives, but only who was left. The economic damage they had suffered from disease destroyed many tribes, left many areas empty and abandoned. The Europeans just moved right in to more or less pre existing towns and recolonized them destroying much of the native culture as they went.[/QUOTE] The americas were actually hit with large plagues just prior to the europeans discovering it so their populations were already drastically lowered before our diseases spread to them

[QUOTE=Talvy;53171662]Sometimes, dead is better.[/QUOTE] It seems they have a stict plan to prevent any necromantic accidents: [quote]"We are happy to be working, shoulder to shoulder, with the Bureau of Archaeological Research and the residents of Manasota Key to identify a preservation plan that will allow the ancestors to continue to rest peacefully and without human disturbance for the next 7,000 years"[/quote]

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;53172370]It seems they have a stict plan to prevent any necromantic accidents:[/QUOTE] Dude, those measures are just there for the drama of their inevitable failure.