June 28, 2007

• The Vikings really got around, y'know?
• A Vikinca. Or possibly an Inking.
• The Prime Directive is in place to avoid just these sorts of problems, people.
• I like "Inking." As a child, he would have been an "Inkling." This would be great fodder for a Bernard Cornwell book à la Stonehenge. Maybe the bones were passed around as some kind of trophy or ceremonial object, making their way to Newfoundland from South America.
• The question being how the hell did the bones get so damn far up the coast?
• There once was a personable Inca, Who said: "I'm not much of a thinka. I've found that a Viking Can really be striking, But the one who took bones was a stinka."
• It's just this sort of irregularity in the fossil record that proves that the theory of evolution can't possibly be right.
• The best course of action is to assume that the Inca traveled somehow to Norway rather than to assume that the work done on ancient skeletal populations has some sort of sampling error.
• That was one of my ancestors. Sorry about that.
• Seriously Odd Archeological Mysteries
• Isn't it more likely that a commonly or even un-commonly repeatable genetic defect occurred rather than the whole unlikely Viking age-Inca travel thing? It's only a seriously odd mystery until someone connects the dots. Although the link was rather interesting. Me loves unanswered questions.
• Questioning the Inca Paradox: Did the civilization behind Machu Picchu really fail to develop a written language?
• Farming Like the Incas: The Incas were masters of their harsh climate, archaeologists are finding—and the ancient civilization has a lot to teach us today
• The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy
• Protection Sought for Vast and Ancient Incan Road