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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Bookworm[/i] [br]Readers of Tony Hillerman's Navajo Tribal Police novels -- and there are quite a few of us here -- will recall his many descriptions of the amazingly rugged landscape of Dinetah, the homeland of the Dine, or Navajo. Archeologists have identified more than 200 high defensive sites throughout that landscape that would have provided refuges inaccessible to Spanish explorers and unfriendly tribes once the ladders that provided access were pulled up. Now some archaeologists are conducting experiments with special flares to see whether smoke signals could have been sent from those sites to warn neighboring communities that invaders were coming: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NM_SMOKE_SIGNALS_NMOL-?SITE=NMSAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT It's not absolutely certain that smoke signals were used as an early warning system, but it sure would have seemed logical to do so. Just ask any fan of "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"! And the Scots used a similar system to warn of the English coming over the border. It's fascinating to read of how more can be learned, even now, of the way life was lived 300 years ago. [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.