Posted on 09/24/2025 12:02:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
PinGGG!....................
There is a lot of building all around the middle east in the 10,000 years prior to the younger dryas.
How can we get western nations and Asia to start using the classical term Anatolia and quit calling it “Turkey”.
Of all the peoples in the area the Turks are the most late comers of all; all other peoples in the region, including the Kurds, predate the Turks by centuries, some by millennium.
You Hittite the nail right on the head, but it’s really an Asia Minor detail.................
Come on. Everyone likes turkey. 🦃
Don’t be an Ottomaniac.
Mind your own Byzantine................😁
Perhaps we should be called Clovis People, since they were here first. < /sarcasm>
Quit digging and guessing. Just ask Keith Richards.
I was not so much referring to the people, as the land, as the term began in use for the area (by the Greeks) as far back as the 1st millennium B.C. The Turks themselves referred to the area as Anadolu, which was their transliteration of the Greek word Anatole.
America was not named after us, as a people. It first came into use in 1507 by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller on a world map to honor Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. It was further adopted by European explorers like Columbus and others like him. As it is a word for a place, not a particular people, it now refers to people “Americans” as those settled in that place - America. You could simply say the Clovis people were among the earliest Americans (people who live or lived in the area now known as America). Though I imagine if we had any writing from the Clovis people, they had there own name for the lands where they lived.
The survivors get to name the place. The dead ones are of little consequence.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Comment of the day winner.
I don’t know why, but when I think of the Clovis People, images of ‘Cliff Clavin” from Cheers comes to mind. lol.
I clearly see a connection there. ;-D
Perhaps we should be called Clovis People, since they were here first.
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They were not the first, just the first ones that fit into mainstream archeology’s ideology.
Anyone who digs below the Clovis Level and publishes any human habitation found has their career ruined. At least 3 people in the profession have suffered that fate and are in another profession.
Are you referring to Keith Richards of the Strolling Bones?
You know it. 😎
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