How could native American Indians basically only know how to make an arrowhead, when this was being done 80,000 years ago?
Apparently you have never seen atlatl weights. Most call them bannerstones, a poor name but one which stuck, some of the most gorgeous artifacts out there. And drilled through using cane to make perfectly round holes through far harder material.
Atlatls predated the bow and were gradually replaced by it but southeast indians used them to punch holes through Spanish armor and send deSoto running.
And you haven’t looked at the interior of a birch bark canoe - made on a master’s well-thought-out framework.
Boatstones.
Birdstones.
Northwest Coast masks with interlocking and moving parts.
Intricately carved slave clubs.
Soapstone bowls and effigies.
Harpoons. Seal oil lamps.
Fish hooks of bone and shell.
Ulus.
Superthin chert knives.
Wenatchie blades.
Or the art-deco looking mica designs of the Hopewell.
Or the copperwork of the Mississippians and Hopewell, from falconlike birdmen plates to three dimensional turtles fashioned from copper.
Even finer, tinier bone needles.
Semitransparent weather slickers made from seal intestine.
Chunkee gaming stone discs.
Bauxite, mudstone and pipestone figurines.
Head pots.
Adena pipes.
Cloth made as fine as the cloth on a modern day dress shirt yet without a loom, from spun dogbane and other fibers.
Cloth made from feathers and soft bison hair.
Slippers and moccasin liners made from twined fiber from Mammoth Cave.
Take a look at the book Hero, Hawk and Human Hand.
Thanks for the slide show. Can’t wait to see your next vacation.
rwood
Archeologists lie to gain notoriety.
It is not only Doctors who lie to mortgage your home,
or Climate Scientists who lie to global tax you.
Maybe the same way they didn’t know about the wheel until the white man showed up?.
The Indians realized that it was more important to be able to eat meat and defend the tribe than to adorn with bling.
How could native American Indians basically only know how to make an arrowhead, when this was being done 80,000 years ago?
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How can Arab culture and technological creativity be stuck in the 7th century?
How are there peoples in many of the 3rd world places that revert right back to near neolithic tech levels whenever left on their own?
Serious question? Serious answer: Something happened.
My guess is that a world wide catastrophe happened which pushed the “existing civilizations” towards extinction. It would explain why we are finding artifacts that are aged way further back than they should.
Imagine what would happen to us if a massive supervolcano blew up, blocking out the sun. Or if a comet or asteroid hit us.
Sure there would be many who lived for the remainder of their lives. But resources would dry up and it would take years to get back on track. Two or three generations hence would be moving back towards hunter gatherers because they would lack the technology to move the other way.
My guess is that this has happened over, and over, and over again.
Science Fiction is full of this stuff—mostly lifted from mythology and ancient stories.
Or did you not want an answer? :-)