[blam]

"Another of the, hmm, four I guess, books I've been reading lately is a book by Adovasio and Page about Precolumbian America. Adovasio comes off as a self-righteous arrogant prick, so I'd have reservations about shelling out money for this one. "

Hey, I thought that ( The First Americans ) was a very good book.

[SunkenCiv]

I think the copy I have is one you mailed me? Anyway, somehow, I think I wound up with two copies of it. :') I hope the book gets A) better and B) more on-topic.

Jake Page is probably the nicest guy in the world, for all I know, but I have a hard time taking him seriously because he coauthored books with the slipshod Charles Officer, most notoriously, The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy in which a K-T impact is not only denied, but also shown to be "impossible", and for that matter, that any extinctions from any such impact would likewise be "impossible". There's a quick reference to Officer's presentation and subsequent excoriation and debunking, in the Luis Alvarez memoir. :')