[pepsi_junkie]

In contrast, the recent evidence from the Mediterranean suggests purposeful navigation. Archaeologists had long noted ancient-looking stone tools on several Mediterranean islands including Crete, which has been an island for more than 5 million years, but they were dismissed as oddities.

Modern science in a nutshell. If the evidence doesn't fit what I "know" to be true, then that evidence should be ignored for ... reasons.

[Rurudyne]

True story: years ago after I first heard of the idea that there was a issue with the generally accepted timeline of Egyptgiven the evidence, for example, that a tomb of an earlier dynasty individual had been built on top of the tomb of a later (and thus it was suggested that for at least several hundred years Egypt may have had two different capitals) I happened to encounter an old professor of mine, an archaeologist, and told him of the idea.

His reaction was not wow, that interesting and there might be some real work inspired to test the theory but was instead literally that it would mess everything up.

Now, maybe “mess up” was his way of saying the former, but it doesn’t seem like it would be.