[Nathan Zachary]

""The Jinsha culture is quite different from those in other parts of China, and yet is scarcely mentioned by Chinese historians," says Zhu Zhangyi, a veteran archaeologist... w "The harsh geography made it difficult for outsiders to enter the kingdom and so it was able to preserve its endemic culture.""

And because of the lack of recorded history, it is a gold mine of another sort, a goldmine where archaeologists and the like can create a history that incorporates every fantasy possible that archaeologists and historians have ever dreamed. it will be ineresting to see what kind of super culture they come up with. Maybe even clues to their space ship....

[gcruse]

You are so right. Theorizing based on evidence can’t hold a candle to throwing up your hands and saying, “Some things cannot be known.”

Happily, the guy who said one thing we could never know was the composition of the stars, was of equal perspicacity.