Into archaeology? Lost civilization found!

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists recently unearthed the remains of a thatch house, the carbonized bones of two people, and other traces of what they believe is the lost Indonesian civilization that was destroyed by the biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history. Mount Tambora's eruption on April 10, 1815, buried Sumbawa Island under ash, gas and rock, and resulted in an estimated 88,000 deaths and "The Year Without a Summer."
(copied from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ )

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Oh, I feel there's more somewhere. Here's more about Mount Tambora : http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Mount+Tambora .

Outlines are due on Monday the 6th.

well beachy youve done it again
you always come up with cool shit.

sweet! What timespan we talking about, how long had they been closed off from the rest of Indonesia?

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Originally Posted by Harvesthetic

sweet! What timespan we talking about, how long had they been closed off from the rest of Indonesia?

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I think they've only found radar imaging of the remains buried beneath the two hundred year-old ash.

i dont know... how can we really know the accurate death toll for something we didnt even fuckin kno about till now. seems odd..

I remember seeing this on CNN, they are calling it the "pompeii of the east... or west, cant remember which direction it is... but yea thats awesome stuff, imagine a whole civilization to research, id love to be doing that

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Originally Posted by RastaKaze

i dont know... how can we really know the accurate death toll for something we didnt even fuckin kno about till now. seems odd..

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They had a pretty accurate body count in Pompeï, it even matched the citizen register.

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Originally Posted by bedake

I remember seeing this on CNN, they are calling it the "pompeii of the east... or west, cant remember which direction it is... but yea thats awesome stuff, imagine a whole civilization to research, id love to be doing that

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lol! was still typing i'll check cnn immediately. but that's nice though, let's see when the psychedelics come into consideration by the anthropologists ;) regions around Indonesia are well known for indulging haha.

link http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/sci....ap/index.html

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Originally Posted by Harvesthetic

lol! was still typing i'll check cnn immediately. but that's nice though, let's see when the psychedelics come into consideration by the anthropologists ;) regions around Indonesia are well known for indulging haha.

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ohh! remember that thing like 3 weeks ago when they found all those new plant species and frogs and what not, I wonder if any of em are new psychedelics hehe.... little off topic