Posted on 06/06/2021 8:29:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Sediment*
On the other hand, perhaps the steel clamshell shovel used to scrape up the muck, scratched the two chips of obsidian when they were collected and the perfect arrowheads used by the forelorn hunter were never damaged.
Proof the hunter so trapped the wildlife with his cunning snare. .... or maybe not nor maybe they never existed and maybe sediment flows to where it always flows, ultimately to the bottom of a lake.
There’s no possibility that a couple of stone tools wound up on the same piece of now-submerged land where human-built structures were found? Yes, that’s pretty much what they’re saying.
Sorry but I didn’t see anything I could picture as a structure. The rocks seen could have been naturally placed.
They lost their weapons in a tragic canoeing accident?........................
If I missed the sarcasm I apologize. Just so many legitimate finds being discredited without probable cause. There absolutely have been hoaxes, but to kneejerk judge every find as a hoax denies credit to the legitimate discoveries. :)
And as you know, Portage was already a well used practice by the Hurons and other tribes long before they ever arrived. Who knows how long the natives had been traveling those waterways with very finely made Birch Bark Canoes light enough to portage with no problem. Because these waterways were their freeways I would suspect a very very long time. Humans tend to always find a way to take the path of least resistance. The trade routes were already there long before anyone from the new world came.
“...but to kneejerk judge every find as a hoax denies credit to the legitimate discoveries.”
At least in this country, in many situations, you are innocent until proven guilty. But you have to admit there have been many “discoveries” that have been proven hoaxes. How many UFO sightings have been thrown helmets or someone trying to get their 15 minutes of fame? I go into these with an open mind and am not influenced with the media since they are predatory liars anyway. And the first thing that should be done is prove it.
So a good example is the government trying to determine the exitance of UFOs. The invented Bright Star and Blue Book, the 200 series regulations, whose only purpose was to disprove them. This seems to be the pattern and we only see the ones they did disprove all too often with the ones not proven wrong being hid in the back on the back burner. We seldom see those. They remain unexplained and not proven forever.
Is it honest? Nope. But it is done and has been successful for Uncle Sugar for long before my conception. As Rocky would say, “Absolutely.”
wy69
Twice I listened to the end. Now if the answer is not up front I am gone.
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