Hawaiian Cave Reveals Ancient Secrets


	Hawaiian Cave Reveals Ancient Secrets

tabsey

10-27-2008 4:14 AM

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A rehash of what must have been a fantastic discovery.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/297f7cea-c180-40ab-9357-e023062dd08c/D4BF1DF1-136C-49C6-99D0-78ECF7F646BE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/history/081025-hawaii-cave.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/history/081025-hawaii-cave.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/history/081025-hawaii-cave.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.livescience.com/img/BD6C0FC1-C02C-4385-B1F5-A74A1187E9C4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/history/081025-hawaii-cave.html"><DIV id="ri_caption">The Makauwahi Cave in Hawaii may be the richest fossil site in the entire Pacific Island region, loaded with bird and fish bones and ancient Polynesian artifacts. Credit: Alec Burney</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/history/081025-hawaii-cave.html">From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great
secrets. We had been looking for new fossil sites on the south side of
the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1992 with our colleagues, Helen F.
James and Storrs L. Olson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
D.C.,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/history/081025-hawaii-cave.html"><P>
And what we found was a <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=history&c=news&l=on&pic=081025-makauwahi-cave-02.jpg&cap=The+Makauwahi+Cave+in+Hawaii+may+be+the+richest+fossil+site+in+the+entire+Pacific+Island+region%2C+loaded+with+bird+and+fish+bones+and+ancient+Polynesian+artifacts.+Credit:+Alec+Burney&title=">cave</A>  — once a Pleistocene dune field, and
later a sinkhole with pickling-jar powers — that may be the richest
fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps in the entire Pacific
Island region. 
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Polynesian artifacts, thousands of bird and fish bones, and more from
this half-acre pile of sediments spanning many millennia. The site has
yielded up some of the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/080815-bts-hawaii-petrels.html">island's long-kept secrets</A>,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D4BF1DF1-136C-49C6-99D0-78ECF7F646BE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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