[Aztlan] Tsunami Wipes Out Olmec

[D. M. Urquidi]

Greg Sandor <gregory_sandor at hotmail.com>

Bur first you have to find evidence of a flood. The
most accurate is found on the walls of Bonampak. The
Dresden has  information also, And the west panel at
Palenque tells how it came to be a flood.

Dea 

> "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
> 
> (614) 517-7204
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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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D. M. Urquidi
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