Only slightly less plausible than the story they made up to hook readers into this article. Just give me straight reporting, thank you.
I agree.
The model for writers now seems to be those "click to next" ones on 25 shocking things or 20 remedies or something. With ads to delay the ending. Everything is now how long a period to tell advertisers they kept us online for the dreary preambles, backfill, introductions and stalling around.
It used to be writers wanted to hook the reader and get to the best part of the story in a reasonable amount of words and then close it out. No more.
“This evidence, combined with the distance to the obsidian’s original source, paint a picture of an extensive trade or exchange network that spanned the continent nearly 3,000 years after the end of the last ice age.”
Looks like more of a painting than a story. So, from a couple of obsidian shards they’re able to conclude that there was trade between Indians leaving in Michigan and those living in California. They probably had a stock market exchange to go with that a well.
The guys that come up with these fantasies could make a much better living if they used their wild and wishful imagination to write novels.