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Osprey
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Osprey finds major Indian site in Baja Sur
I recently sent to INAH in La Paz a packet of photos and site information about a major new discovery I made here in East Cape on the shore.
I included the GPS info, site boundaries and many photos. The site is made up primarily of large surface mounds of Indian toenail clippings. I would
post them here but they are stark and gross.
I think INAH will agree with my assessment that the site can only be a major summer camp for the Pedicure Indians of Baja Sur.
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Delicious, if cooked right.
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I think you should post the GPS coords so us nomads can have first pick at the finest specimens before they end up in some museum storage area never
to be seen again.
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These toe nail clippings were the precursors to fish hooks fashioned from cactus spines. A high calcium diet from the consumption of clams, oysters
and the occasional fish bone made for toe nails much stronger than the modern man.
One day a member of the tribe was busy removed a curved cholla spine from his big toe when he was overcome by a moment of inspiration.
The large mounds were discarded toe nails after the cholla spine fish hooks became more widely used.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bkbend
I think you should post the GPS coords so us nomads can have first pick at the finest specimens before they end up in some museum storage area never
to be seen again. |
WTF ARE YOU SAYING??????
This will create a stampede of looters bigger than any revelation of a lost mission or a secret surf spot.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Delicious, if cooked right. |
The indians or toe nail clippings?
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rts551
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since these mounds are beach side, a few fotos of the tire tracks leading up to them would be appropriate. Preferably Hancooks at the proper sand
inflation.
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woody with a view
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i've heard of toe nail clippings being used as tooth picks, in a pinch!
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Hard to say what they were due to decomposition but the nail files gave it away.
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Great find, George!
You are always coming across something interesting on your walks/hikes.
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The photos are very vivid and raw. Sometimes, just after my c-cktail hour I sit and stare at them and try to figure out what they used. I had a heck
of a time with the Spanish report to INAH >>> clippings is not the word I used (or trimming) and i inferred more than stated that it is
possible the act was a co ordinated group activity where one trained adult would chew off the bothersome toenail of another of his clan. That's the
one scenario that makes sense when you see the pictures with part of the toe still attached to the nail. Well I'll let the science team work it all
out. Time for another c-cktail.
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i want some of what Sr Osprey is having....
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Toothpicks? Woody, thanks for ruining my lunch.
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Have any pictures?
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Absolutely disgusting
But made me laugh out loud!
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Osprey
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BC man, I've admired your posts and how you live with who JR would call "The Real Baja People" and you are much admired and appreciated for that but
that makes you "Un innocencio", and the pictures could cause you harm I can't yet explain. Some random encounters with the Pedicures might have
happened with the forebears of your riding partners in the canyons and you (they) might be changed forever by the memory, the sight of what and who
they once were -- it is rough now; before it was oh so much rougher around these parts.
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Major site but no close ups
In other early man sites these would be kitchen middens. Here are the human nails from a distance.
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Osprey
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Pedicure tools
I think these tools were used for making some kind of early salads.
[Edited on 5-31-2013 by Osprey]
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Another second harvest, there are cave paintings nearby showing the nails being ground into protein powder........
I hear the whales song
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