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Clovis Speakers Discuss Man's Origins In The United States
The State/AP ^
| 10-27-2005
| Meg Kinnard
Posted on 10/28/2005 11:53:56 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
10/28/2005 11:53:58 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
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.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/28/2005 11:57:00 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
So, I guess the whole 'starship lifeboat crashes on virgin planet' theory gets little support in this meeting, eh?
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posted on
10/28/2005 11:57:54 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(The result of choosing between the lesser of two evils still leaves you with - evil.)
To: blam
How do they know we just did not evolve here from moonbats?
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posted on
10/28/2005 11:58:10 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: Brilliant
Professor Stephen Oppenheimer's DNA studies place humans at Meadowcroft 25,000 years ago and they became isolated there until the later Mongoloid entrances:
Journey Of Mankind BTW, the oldest (undisputed) Mongoloid skeleton ever found is only 10,000 years old. Re: Oppenheimer.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:02:36 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Semper Paratus
To arrive by water one would need a serious craft - either large rafts ("Kon-Tiki" type) or primitive ships. Such craft being sizable, the remnants of at least a few would be likely to survive either physically [like viking longboats], or at least in the lore. What is the age of the oldest boat/raft remnant ever found around the Americas?
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:03:01 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: blam
Clovis speakers discuss man's origins in the United States Didn't know there was anyone left alive that spoke Clovis.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:04:33 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Mesocons for Rice '08)
To: GSlob
Of the most feared warship in history, the Athenian trireme, not one survives.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:05:41 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: Brilliant
How do they know we just did not evolve here from moonbats?*************
It's generally accepted within the scientific community that this is the origin of Homo Democratis.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:07:18 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: blam
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.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:08:00 PM PDT
by
L98Fiero
To: Semper Paratus
What exactly is "primal racism"? LOL Has a nice ring to it, though.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:09:27 PM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: blam
I want reparations against "American Indians" who stole this land from my ancestors!
To: blam
Thanks for the post. I enjoy pre-Columbian history.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:12:07 PM PDT
by
wizr
(Mentally lame duck.)
To: RightWhale
And they weren't much more than 2000 years ago.
BTW, these speakers are probably correct about the North Pacific, but they are wildly incorrect about the North Atlantic.
North Atlantic shores are not at all hospitable for human life.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:13:11 PM PDT
by
Restorer
(Illegitimati non carborundum)
To: blam
Good article. Keep 'em coming!
Some good discoveries in the last few years. Things are getting exciting again.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:14:12 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:14:56 PM PDT
by
job
("God is not dead nor doth He sleep")
To: Restorer
North Atlantic shores are not at all hospitable for human life. No kidding. That's why the Original Thirteen Colonies died out.
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posted on
10/28/2005 12:16:40 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: blam
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!!!!
To: GSlob
Land/water travel does not have to be either/or. Pop-science news blurbs fly all over the place but the consensus stays pretty constant. Land routes are
shown on simple maps because it's well,
simpler. Even
population shift maps don't leave much room for differentiation between travel modes. My favorite
rendering of the consensus (CLICK! IT'S A MUST SEE) gets into more detail of the interplay between different routes. It's supplementary info, not a contradiction.
The controversy is over dates. Then it becomes a fuss between adults who do this for a living and a bunch of 'me first' clowns and their press agents.
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