[Sabertooth]

Perhaps I'm wearing blinders, but I regard virtually everything that happened in North America before the American Revolution to be unimportant. At least to me.

I find it interesting for a few reasons:

1. Humans apparently get here within a few thousand years of the Pleistocene extinction. I'm curious about how that dynamic went down.

2. Did the Megalith cultures of the New World have contact with those of the Old, or some common source culture?

3. Politics. If the first New World humans were European, then none of the three remnant linguistic/genetic groups of Asiatic stock gets to claim "Native American" status any more than me, as a native Californian. Peaceful "Native Americans" in harmony with nature bs will be dealt another blow.

4. We can finally uncover the truth behind the Mysterious Dinosaurs of Acambaro.

What about the evolution of horses, camels, and rhinos?

[AndrewC]

4. We can finally uncover the truth behind the Mysterious Dinosaurs of Acambaro.

A classic example of mistaken identity.

[VadeRetro]

I can't tell the real story of the Mysterious Dinosaurs of Acambro, but I'd need to see a report from a more trustworthy source. (There are internal hints that the figurines are a hoax, of course.)

I saw www.bible.ca's "Cretacious" Miner's Hammer a year or so ago. IOW, that site is a joke.

[medved]

3. Politics. If the first New World humans were European, then none of the three remnant linguistic/genetic groups of Asiatic stock gets to claim "Native American" status any more than me, as a native Californian. Peaceful "Native Americans" in harmony with nature bs will be dealt another blow.

Vine Deloria claims the American Indians were here from the beginning and his "Red Earth, White Lies" makes a shambles of the standard "Overkill Hypothesis" which is taught in university courses. Anybody interested in American prehistory should have a copy.