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The civilization on Sumbawa Island has intrigued researchers ever since Dutch and British explorers visited in the
early 1800s and were surprised to hear a language that did not sound like any other spoken in Indonesia,
Sigurdsson said.
Some scholars believe the language more closely resembled some of those spoken in Indochina. But not long after
Westerners first encountered Tambora, the society was destroyed.
"The explosion wiped out the language. That's how big it was," Sigurdsson said. "But we're trying to get these
people to speak again, by digging."
Some of what the researchers found may suggest Tambora's inhabitants came from Indochina or had commercial
ties with the region, Sigurdsson said. For example, ceramic pottery uncovered during the dig resembles that
common to Vietnam.
John Miksic, an archaeologist at the National University of Singapore, has seen video of the dig and said he
believes Sigurdsson's team did find a dwelling destroyed by the eruption.
But he doubts the Tamborans were from Indochina or spoke a language from that area. If Vietnamese-style
ceramics reached the island, it was probably through trade with intermediaries, Miksic said.
During the dig, Sigurdsson's team found the charred skeleton of a woman who was most likely in her kitchen. A
metal machete and a melted glass bottle lay nearby. The remains of another person were found just outside what
was probably the front door.
The team included researchers from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the Indonesian Directorate
of Volcanology.
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As updates become available we will present them here. Frank Riccardi Director, Eyepod.Org/usassociates.us
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — Scientists
have found what they believe are
traces of the lost Indonesian civilization
of Tambora, which was wiped out in
1815 by one of the biggest volcanic
eruptions in recorded history.
Mount Tambora's cataclysmic eruption on
April 10, 1815, buried the inhabitants of
Sumbawa Island under searing ash, gas
and rock and is blamed for an estimated
88,000 deaths. The eruption was at least
four times more powerful than Mount
Krakatoa's in 1883.
Guided by ground-penetrating radar, U.S.
and Indonesian researchers recently dug
in a gully where locals had found ceramics
and bones. They unearthed the remains of
a thatched house, pottery, bronze and the
carbonized bones of two people, all in a
layer of sediment dating to the eruption.
University of Rhode Island volcanologist
Haraldur Sigurdsson, the leader of the
expedition, estimated that 10,000 people
lived in the town when the volcano erupted
in a blast that dwarfed the one that buried
the Roman town of Pompeii.
The eruption shot 400 million tons of
sulfuric gases into the atmosphere,
causing global cooling and creating what
historians call "The Year Without a
Summer." Farms in Maine suffered crop-
killing frosts in June, July and August of
1816. In France and Germany, grape and
corn crops died, or the harvests were
delayed.
have found what they believe are
traces of the lost Indonesian civilization
of Tambora, which was wiped out in
1815 by one of the biggest volcanic
eruptions in recorded history.
Mount Tambora's cataclysmic eruption on
April 10, 1815, buried the inhabitants of
Sumbawa Island under searing ash, gas
and rock and is blamed for an estimated
88,000 deaths. The eruption was at least
four times more powerful than Mount
Krakatoa's in 1883.
Guided by ground-penetrating radar, U.S.
and Indonesian researchers recently dug
in a gully where locals had found ceramics
and bones. They unearthed the remains of
a thatched house, pottery, bronze and the
carbonized bones of two people, all in a
layer of sediment dating to the eruption.
University of Rhode Island volcanologist
Haraldur Sigurdsson, the leader of the
expedition, estimated that 10,000 people
lived in the town when the volcano erupted
in a blast that dwarfed the one that buried
the Roman town of Pompeii.
The eruption shot 400 million tons of
sulfuric gases into the atmosphere,
causing global cooling and creating what
historians call "The Year Without a
Summer." Farms in Maine suffered crop-
killing frosts in June, July and August of
1816. In France and Germany, grape and
corn crops died, or the harvests were
delayed.
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