[Aztlan] Tsunami Wipes Out Olmec

[Greg Sandor]

"Where would  you dig to find remnants of a flood?"

I'd flood a digital model of the region to the approximate depth of the real 
innundation, then on the ground dig at the edges of the flooded areas for 
silt.

Regards,

Greg

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Kirsch II" <tikalman9 at yahoo.com>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 4:12 AM
Subject: [Aztlan] Tsunami Wipes Out Olmec


>I imagine the Isthmus of Tehuantepec would have had its
> share of bad weather and storm surges. Is there any evidence for
> a tsunamis wave rising up across the Isthmus, burying everything?
> Were the lowlands flooded with salt water? Where would  you dig to find 
> remnants of a flood?
>     The Olmecs built canals to carry the heads. Of course the rafts would 
> bottom out in a swamp, they would have to dig ahead of it, 
> creating-inadvertantly-a canal. Only other options-fly them with sails and 
> ropes and roll them on a cart with wheels. As for rafts, what shapes are 
> most bouyant with the least surface area-like a canoe-the point of depth 
> is in the center, the canoe would have to be balanced on both sides. The 
> wood used to float them, unknown, but Balsa wood happens to have grown in 
> the region, what phytolith evidence exists for the varieties of trees that 
> forested the region in 3750 B.P.
> They used ropes to move the stone, we know this from the Olmec 
> altar/thrones. I have found some evidence for the canals. If I am not 
> mistaken, the clays found layered with travertine came from collection 
> over a large area of excavation.
>    Lake Catemaco is quite formidable, its waterways and river must have 
> been the prize of the Olmec. What findings have been made at Catemaco, any 
> ideas. Perhaps the lake holds its secrets in the depths and a search might 
> find stone effigies, celts or jade figurines. Such a large body of water 
> must have had some significance for the Olmec, aquatic resources aside. 
> Robert Kirsch
>
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