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Warpy

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5. Local tribes have an oral history of "fire rocks"

Reply to AverageJoe90 (Reply #4)

Wed May 8, 2013, 02:49 AM

May 2013

from a "fire mountain," probably the last volcano that erupted about an hour west of me something like 15,000 years ago.

Tribal peoples have been fairly stable in this region, the land is so poor and the water so lacking that nobody else wanted to fight them for it.

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No evidence for theory humans wiped out megafauna [View all] Ichingcarpenter May 2013 OP

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Yes, of course that's right Warpy May 2013 #3

Well, the only thing absolutely for sure is that we'll still be here..... AverageJoe90 May 2013 #4

Local tribes have an oral history of "fire rocks" Warpy May 2013 #5

Yep. You in the Northwest, btw? n/t AverageJoe90 May 2013 #6

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