I think he did more than other single individual to shake up the stupidities and academic hubris surrounding the peopling of the Americas. I have long agreed with him about the following:
"The more I do and the more I see, the more I realize the shocking extent of ignorance that exists among the scholarly circles that call themselves authorities and pretend to have a monopoly of all knowledge," he wrote.
Rest in peace and continue your explorations to the end of time, old Mentor.
Ditto. RIP old friend.