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| Kip Wagner Examines Pottery and Tableware From 1715 Wreck Off Fort Pierce. |
Wagner, as you probably know, was the president of the Real 8 Company and a pioneer treasure salvor. This is from an old newspaper clipping. I'll try to find the source data, but I think it is from the 1960s. If you find the source and let me know, I'll properly credit it.
It looks like on the table is some Kang Hsi, and some heavy silver forks and other things. I saw some closeup photos of some of the forks. Maybe I can find those again. Very interesting.
Some of the finds, including chains, crosses, etc. were sold in a Parke-Bernet auction in New York. Maybe I can find the catalog. The old catalogs didn't have the great photos that are in today's auction catalogs.
A gunflint (used in old-fashioned guns), tobacco pipes, broken pottery and the jawbone of a goat are carefully laid out. These discarded fragments, unearthed from centuries of compacted soil, offer clues to a lost past...
These remnants point to the existence of "the first English outpost established anywhere in Africa", he argues.
The archaeologist is standing in the ruins of Fort Amsterdam, speaking above the wind and roar of the Atlantic Ocean waves hitting Ghana's coastline.
Inside that fort are what are thought to be the remains of an older fort - Kormantine - long-lost under the earth, which the professor's team are gradually excavating with brisk activity...
At first there was some disappointment as they started by finding a lot of plastic items that must have been dropped more recently. But then Nigerian graduate student Omokolade Omigbule uncovered a stone that Prof DeCorse identified as part of a bigger structure...
Here is the link for a lot more about that.
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Arrowhead housed at Bern History Museum found to be made from meteoritic iron (phys.org)
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet (about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years.
Oceanographer Peter Bromirski at Scripps Institution of Oceanography used the unusual method of analyzing seismic records dating back to 1931 to measure the change in wave height.
When waves ricochet off the shore, they collide with incoming waves and cause a ripple of energy through the seafloor that can be picked up by seismographs designed to detect earthquakes. The greater the impact, the taller the wave is...
Surfs up takes on new meaning as California waves get bigger as Earth warms | AP News
I think that needs to be qualified, but I'll let it go for now.---
There will be some significant weather coming our way from Africa, but right now there is nothing that looks like it will change beach conditions for at least a few days.
Proverbs 26:4. Do not answer a fool according to his own folly, or you will be just like him.
Good hunting.
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