Well, as to the extinct inhabitants, they are now in the “next world”, and at the mercy of these dental studies. Then the second title is a comment on these, and all such studies. “Betcha didn’t know the South won the Civil War!”
... just to amplify my thought, I guess I’m asserting the primacy of the subjective, something argued in one of the Socratic dialogues by a line of thought now disparaged as “sophistry”. But are we really captive to all these studies and pronouncements of objective fact? There is no lack of rebellion against them on this forum! So maybe I’m expressing my sympathy for this attitude under the rubric of philosophical skepticism.
... why thank you, yes I’ll have another.