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    Author: * henvell Welf - 4 Posts on this thread out of 23 Posts sitewide.
    Date: May 30, 2007 - 23:52

    Source:M Jodry,2005.

    Glacial retreat from the mouth of the St Lawerence River created the brackish Champlain Sea ca 13000 BCE.By ca 9930 BCE [cal'07] isostatic rebound and the retreat of the Laurentide ice sheets combined to drain a significant portion of this water body.
    A site in Vermont along a former shoreline of the Sea yielded 30 fluted points.S Loring [2003] contends that one was made of Ramah chert,which is unknown south of Hamilton Inlet on the North Labrador eastern coast of Canada.The straight line distance from the Vermount encampment is about 1300km.At that time Hamilton Inlet was seperated from the eastern shores of the Champlain Sea by a glacial tongue,that extended into the Atlantic Ocean until ca 9700 BCE [cal'07]
    Prior to 10000 BCE Palaeoamerican seafarers successfully negotiated the stormy,trecherous passage to and from Hamiliton Inlet in water craft that were probably fairly primative.It was an epic feat,which has not received adequate recognition.


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