Extremely! I am wading through this sea of information and have not completed the journey, but from what I have read, it appears as if Darwinian logic is not exclusively in the domain of biology. Imagine grave robbers inserting new pottery into old digs, illiterate "peasants" keeping writings as heirlooms.(obviously illiterate, they produced no writings of their own since they kept none)
His excellent paper on the archaeology of Hazor (C&CR 1996:1) revealed some important anachronisms. For example, two cuneiform tablets written in Old-Babylonian Akkadian and two more written in the Akaddian of the Amarna era were found in the upper layers of the site. Heinsohn asks 'How did tablets from the early second millennium end up in a stratum reaching its peak in the period of the Persian Empire (550-330 BC)?'. The tablets were, of course, immediately labelled 'heirlooms' by their finders. But, as Heinsohn pointed out, it seems strange that the later Hazoreans kept tablets for over 1000yr as heirlooms from the MBA or LBA, yet were apparently incapable of producing any texts of their own. ---- Darwinian evolution---Archaeopteryx 150my old, Velociraptor 80my old
I'll keep reading, this is very entertaining!
As a result, the pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty (D18), which most famously include Queen Hatshepsut and Tutankhamun, are made too ancient by around 500 years.
A line of reasoning that actually has some evidence behind it says that Hat and Tut have been made too recent by maybe 200 years. In particular, the Nile delta ashfalls from the volcanic explosion of Thera contain artifacts from about the reign of Hatshepsut and her successor Thutmosis III.
The conventional dating of this event is circa 1450 BC, but California bristlecone pine tree-ring data--a pinched ring from a very dark, cold year--says the likeliest event to be Thera was in the 1600s BC. One caution in the above: I'm remembering from Charles Pellegrino's Unearthing Atlantis, a book I gave away some years ago.
Heinsohn is a psychoceramic's psychoceramic. The Sumerian language is of a completely unknown family and was only deciphered because the conquering Semitic Akkadians--illiterate nomads who depended at first on the conquered Sumerians for record-keeping--made dictionaries to train their own scribes.
The Chaldeans, by comparison, are late-comers to the region. The biblical term "Ur of the Chaldees" is anachronistic, evidence for a late writing.