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To: Question_Assumptions
It's pretty standard human behavior around the world and the noble and peaceful savage is a myth.

Well duh!

The idea was invented in france you know and promoted by fops who wouldn't survive a season in the Americas. They were secretly envious of those who could so they turned us into fluffy sweet bunnies.

It is a toss up over whither this theory or the murderous blood thirsty animal who of course deserved to be crushed annoys me more.

Of course now we have two sides with emotional, political and monetary investment in proving their "story" right. Foolishly they think that one outcome or the other will change life as they know it. It won't. But they are standing in the way of the rest of us learning things.

One needs to be careful when playing the "My people where here first!" game.

One also needs to be careful with "who was here second." I doubt there were migration per say from "Europe" but a splitting up of a group where one goes west and ends up in Europe and one smaller group goes east and ends up in China and the Americas, that is quite possible.

For pete's sake, as long as we are not talking the destruction of the bones let them be tested.

19 posted on 07/21/2004 8:51:50 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( "Lady Snuggles of the Lethal Yew" Ense et aratro!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
You might be amazed by how many young liberals buy into the "Europe was populated by peaceful matriarchal hunter-gatherers who worshipped a mother goddess and mastered fertility with herbs until those awful patriarchal murdering farmers showed up from the Middle East to oppress women and create warfare" theory. See Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization for some interesting examples.
22 posted on 07/21/2004 9:10:35 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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