Comments on: 09-02-04 http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-02-04/ Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:58:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark A. McConaughy http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-02-04/#comment-4925 Mark A. McConaughy Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:24:53 +0000 http://www.skeptic.com/eSkeptic/?p=100#comment-4925 There is another problem with the hypothesis that an asteroid destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah (allegedly the sites of Bab edh-Dhra and Numeria, Jordan). The asteroid blast supposedly occurred in 3123 B.C. There only were shaft tombs present at Bab edh-Dhra dating the the Early Bronze 1A (EB 1A) period circa 3200-3100 B.C. that were used by nomads in the region. A small village area was found dating to the EB 1B period circa 3100-3000 B.C. However, the actual walled town at Bab edh-Dhra was not started until the EB II period beginning circa 3000 B.C., reached its greatest extent during the EB III period circa 2500 B.C. and lasted through the EB IV period ending circa 2100 B.C. The Numeira walled town was only occupied during the EB III period (ca. 2700-2200 B.C.). Thus, it is hard for these two towns to have been destroyed by an asteroid air burst or whatever in 3123 B.C. when they were not yet built and then lasted long after that date! A web site for the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain provides more information at: http://www.nd.edu/~mchesson/edsp_beddescription.html Also, see the site reports: Rast, Walter and R. Thomas Schaub, Eds. 2003 Bab Edh-Dhra': Excavations at the Town Site (1975-1981) (Reports of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan). Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana. Schaub, R. Thomas and Meredith S. Chesson 2007 Life in the Earliest Walled Towns on the Dead Sea Plain: Numeira and Bab edh-Dhra’. In Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. Eds. Levy, Thomas E., P.M. Michele Daviau, Randall W. Younker, and May Shaer, pp. 246-252. Equinox Press, London. Ortner, Donald and Bruno Frohlich, Eds. 2008 Early Broze Age Tombs and Burials of Bab edh-Dhra,' Jordan. Altamira Press, Lanham, Maryland. Mark A. McConaughy a member of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain project. There is another problem with the hypothesis that an asteroid destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah (allegedly the sites of Bab edh-Dhra and Numeria, Jordan). The asteroid blast supposedly occurred in 3123 B.C. There only were shaft tombs present at Bab edh-Dhra dating the the Early Bronze 1A (EB 1A) period circa 3200-3100 B.C. that were used by nomads in the region. A small village area was found dating to the EB 1B period circa 3100-3000 B.C. However, the actual walled town at Bab edh-Dhra was not started until the EB II period beginning circa 3000 B.C., reached its greatest extent during the EB III period circa 2500 B.C. and lasted through the EB IV period ending circa 2100 B.C. The Numeira walled town was only occupied during the EB III period (ca. 2700-2200 B.C.). Thus, it is hard for these two towns to have been destroyed by an asteroid air burst or whatever in 3123 B.C. when they were not yet built and then lasted long after that date!

A web site for the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain provides more information at:
http://www.nd.edu/~mchesson/edsp_beddescription.html

Also, see the site reports:
Rast, Walter and R. Thomas Schaub, Eds.
2003 Bab Edh-Dhra’: Excavations at the Town Site (1975-1981) (Reports of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan). Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana.

Schaub, R. Thomas and Meredith S. Chesson
2007 Life in the Earliest Walled Towns on the Dead Sea Plain: Numeira and Bab edh-Dhra’. In Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan. Eds. Levy, Thomas E., P.M. Michele Daviau, Randall W. Younker, and May Shaer, pp. 246-252. Equinox Press, London.

Ortner, Donald and Bruno Frohlich, Eds.
2008 Early Broze Age Tombs and Burials of Bab edh-Dhra,’ Jordan. Altamira Press, Lanham, Maryland.

Mark A. McConaughy a member of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain project.

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you stated that there is no way a bigfoot could ever strive in the deserts without plentyful water supply,

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