[Right Wing Professor]

New world fire pit carbon dates to 120,000 B.C, the first response is to call the paper's author an idiot.

Since carbos dating doesn't even work to 100,000 BC, that would be my response, too.

[SampleMan]

Good point concerning carbon dating, however my assertion remains the same. Accepted theories get treated as irrefutable dogma. So for example, if pottery were to be discovered at the same layer as a Neanderthal site, it would be explained away as a fluke. Scientific theory, especially outside of the hard sciences, is more often about protecting prestige and hierarchy than it is a search for knowledge.