[Semper Paratus]

called the idea that the first inhabitants traveled by way of a land bridge from Asia "primal racism."

Too bad that archaeology is another science infected by the PC bacillius.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

Topper Site: New Evidence Puts Man In North America 50,000 Years Ago

[ASOC]

So, I guess the whole 'starship lifeboat crashes on virgin planet' theory gets little support in this meeting, eh?

[Brilliant]

How do they know we just did not evolve here from moonbats?

[Mike Darancette]

Clovis speakers discuss man's origins in the United States

Didn't know there was anyone left alive that spoke Clovis.

[L98Fiero]

At the meeting, sponsored in part by the University of South Carolina, Michael Collins called the idea that the first inhabitants traveled by way of a land bridge from Asia "primal racism."

WTF does that mean? Sounds like a typical lefty. If you can't logically debunk your opponent's argument, call him a racist. Works every time.

[pabianice]

I want reparations against "American Indians" who stole this land from my ancestors!

[wizr]

Thanks for the post. I enjoy pre-Columbian history.

[Coyoteman]

Good article. Keep 'em coming!

Some good discoveries in the last few years. Things are getting exciting again.

[Young Werther]

Thor Heyerdahl is probably the best-known proponant of the idea of human travel and cultural exchange across the oceans in ancient times. Read more at the Link below.

Today the Reed boats that ply the Andean Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, Ancient Egypt can current day Chad proclaim that ancient man was an adventurous traveler!

Thor's Heyerdahl's Explorations

I visited the Museum in Sweden where his boats are now displayed. In the next room are Viking long boats which did discover Greenland when the last global warming took place and greenLand was named for its Greeness, (an there was no Kermit!). As near as I could tell the Viking Long boats did not add CO2 to the atmosphere!!!!

[Camel Joe]

Maybe they caught the redeye flight from somewhere?
Check this link out, http://www.philipcoppens.com/bbl_plane.html

[Sam Cree]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Not so much "primal racism" as "pathological isolationism". Also a strong bias against navigation by a bunch of landlubbers. :')

[SunkenCiv]

Michael Collins
(and believe me, the temptation for a Jethro Tull reference is huge right now):
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/colclo.html

Dennis Stanford (looks like a good topic in its own right):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/claimstan.html

New radiocarbon dates: Evidence puts man in North America 50,000 years ago
http://www.sc.edu/usctimes/articles/2004-11/topper_discovery.html

David G. Anderson:
http://web.utk.edu/~anthrop/faculty/anderson.html

[Renfield]

Terrible headline....leads one to believe that Clovis language had been reconstructed.....

I wish someone had alerted me to this conference in advance. I would have attended.

That part about private collectors sharing their artifacts with archaeologists is in order. Some of my old homies in Central Kentucky have Paleoindian collections that exceed (in both quantity and quality) those of most universities and museums.

[Prost1]

I always have problems with these discussions....

1.) Science always assumes the Earth today is same model for 10,000s or 100,000s years ago. Yet, they note the Earth has changed dramatically, excepting they postulate it has not changed radically since Man.

2.)Because they have found no great ships from long ago, they assume (per Darwin) that they did not exist ie; nothing was more sophisticated than the Trimene. Yet, as Barry Fell notes, Julius Caesar reports of the great Keltic ships capable of carrying several hundreds over the open oceans...Giant sailing ships defeated by the calm and the Roman grappling hooks.

3.) per 1 above, since no one can investigate Antarctica, it is assumed no civilization ever existed there. Yet, the Phoenicians had maps of the shoreline (without ice! ref; Charles Hapgood.)

So, why is it not possible that in ancient times, the ice amount on the northern hemisphere could have been massive, reducing the oceans by 100s or more feet and Antarctica could have been free of ice?
Such a possibility includes more favorable weather and seas in the south and an easier way for moving from continent to continent...

[LiteKeeper]

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