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Posted on 05/22/2024 9:14:08 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Actually, they did invent the wheel... there are animal pull toys- llamas, as I recall- with wheel, that were found in graves.
But other than toys, wheels weren’t a practical invention up high in the mountains because of all the stairways breaking up the trails.
And in North America, where the round rolling chunkey game stones were popular, wheels were less useful than canoe trails.
And hoops were great fun in the bare plazas of villages, but not too practical in tall grass prairie.
Necessity being the mother of invention, advancement has less to do with intellect than it does with need.
Europe was needy due to the perpetual invasions and occupations, through which ideas also came.
“You saw a documentary? Source? Name? Or have you conveniently forgotten it?”
You mean to tell me you think I should document in a legal fashion all the hundreds of documentaries I have seen over the years, documentaries that I may remember just one little nugget that stands out in my mind for its singularity, such as this one? You think I am here pulling it out of my ass just for the fun of it?
You must be an idiot.
“There are no legitimate sources that say there were white tribes in South America.”
I don’t know why he would pipe up and say that. There are legitimate sources that say that and he must be one of those people who, if they haven’t heard of something, they can’t bless it so it doesn’t exist.
There was quite a few tribes of Germans in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay after World War Two.
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The claim was “long ago.” Try again.
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I don’t know why he would pipe up and say that. There are legitimate sources that say that and he must be one of those people who, if they haven’t heard of something, they can’t bless it so it doesn’t exist.
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No, he is one of those people who believes in science, not pseudo archeology. What are these legitimate sources? He is open minded and willing to be convinced otherwise.
That was a joke. Stop being so serious.
Another head scratcher for us
Residue of cocaine, nicotine, and hashish found in Egyptian mummies
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm
Ok. Sorry it went over my head I guess. Just let me state I am not an obnoxious humorless dolt, who likes to insult people. It’s just that a few things get under my skin. And one is what is called pseudo archeology. I will just have to get the idea that other people have beliefs different than my own and they’re entitled to them.
Yes ahead scratcher but nothing definitive yet one way or the other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2YxcK-20XM&t=26s
“No, he is one of those people who believes in science, not pseudo archeology.”
Are you one of his disciples? He is to exalted to bother to speak for himself?
“one of those people who believe in science”
That you Dr. Fauci?
I am just now reading a book by archaeologist Cyrus H Gordon. He relates that the vaunted scientific objectivity by some archaeologists is a joke. No objectivity whatsoever.
Ouch! You got me there with the Fauci comment. I am well aware of some of the closed mindedness of a lot of archeologists and scientists. My point is extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. More than is presented in one web article. I might believe the claims when I see repeatability with the so called DNA results.
You must be an idiot.
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No not an idiot. Just someone who hates what he considers pseudo archeology.
You put me in my place for my somewhat off putting comment.
I just believe extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Perhaps they were subjected to head-binding as infants and children, for some aesthetic or superstitious reason.
You sure about that?
They’ve tested these skulls multiple times and with various researchers and the mitochondrial DNA always come back Middle Eastern and European.
Maybe you need to look up what “mitochondrial DNA” means before you post a reply?
Maybe you need to look up what “mitochondrial DNA” means before you post a reply?
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What does my understanding or lack thereof of mitochon=drial dna have to do with my post?
Maybe you need to reread the article. It states right in the article these results have not been replicated.
You seem so sure of yourself in your opinion which is based on nothing but garbage theory that we’ve been fed since Darwin.
It’s not remotely beyond the realm of possibilities that Europeans, Phoenicians, or Carthaginians landed in the Americas well before the Nordics did in CE1000.
We blindly follow written history as told by “authorities” these days - my guess is that most of it is BS based on the lies you want to believe backed by their “science”.
Even Native Americans have global flood stories that mimic closely Noah’s Flood. These same Native Americans will tell you that they did not build half of the ancient structures we give them credit for. The Serpent Mound in Ohio is one of those along with dozens of others.
“Science” is trying to hide a hidden past.
I repeat. What does my understanding of mitochondrial dna have to do with my post? What in the heck does Noah’s flood have to do with anything? You seem to be deflecting.
You made a claim that the dna results have been replicated. Where in the article does it say that?
It says the opposite.
Did you ever think that maybe some of the people who said they didn’t build the mounds are not the same culture/ ethnicity that was in the area when the mounds were built?
Sure it’s possible that all the people you state could have visited the Americas, but it’s about as likely as black Olmecs. How did they get to Peru? On a cross continent trek? Why? Where is the dna evidence and archeological evidence for that?
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