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- From: MAINT2@ERS.BITNET (Ken Koester)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.history
- Subject: Re: Oldest City in North America?
- Message-ID: <HISTORY%92091110295439@RUTVM1.BITNET>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:15:53 GMT
- Sender: History <HISTORY@RUTVM1.BITNET>
- Lines: 18
- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:02:00 EDT from <DGPAZ@CLEMSON>
-
- On Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:02:00 EDT <DGPAZ@CLEMSON> said:
- >
- >All right, clearly we must define our terms.
- >(1) There is pretty much agreement, I think, that by "longest
- >continuously inhabited city in North America" we mean inhabited
- >by people, not limited to Europeans.
-
- That is more interesting, to be sure, but if the original poster would only
- tell us what *he* means, we could avoid some confusion! While we are at it,
- a better definition of "North America," please. I re-skimmed my article on
- metallurgy and found to my surprise that "Mesoamerica" and "Central America"
- aren't the same thing, and that "North America" doesn't mean much within the
- context. Are we going to talk about NA, the geophysical construct, or NA, the
- area encompassing a more or less continuously interacting group(s) of humans?
- If we use geographic definitions with reference to interactions among the
- humans confined therein, that is more interesting as well than a recourse to
- continental plates, IMHO. I don't get the picture that CA & MA ever interacted
- very much with (the rest of) NA in pre-Columbian times. . . .
-