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I took a quick read. My initial impression, is that the opinions were being made based on structures on a very old skull, which to me, would be very difficult to make. I doubt those assessments could be made without a pretty high possibility of error. But then again, maybe they can. It is interesting.South Dakota
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Originally posted by Lindenmeier-Man View PostWell Charlie, I’d like your thoughts...In my reading of the library in Alexandria , I was vastly surprised at how far people went to learn and write of history.. Just my opinion that we lost so much info in the burning, non recoverable history...
Yeah, absolutely, we lost much of the accumulated knowledge of the ancient world with the burning of the Library of Alexandria. An incalculable loss, really.
And what Ron says about what we do not know being far more than what we do know, certainly applies to what we can know of human prehistory. Without writing, written thoughts and records, we simply cannot expect to know as much as we do for times and cultures that did leave written records.
The sciences that assist in archaeology have provided remarkably innovative tests and methods of extracting information from prehistoric sites. It can't substitute for writing, but I find it quite amazing at the way various disciplines can extract info that can then be used to learn things about prehistoric peoples.
But boy, would time travel provide a lot of answers.
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We are all fearfully and wonderfully made. No two skulls are alike and to make assumptions on two partial skulls is reaching a bit. Maybe they should have gone for the DNA approach unless that what the “scans”of the skulls 💀 did. I wouldn’t build a church on the basis of 4 texts so to reinvent the wheel so to speak based on 4 skulls and to say there were different migration areas is stretching it a bit. How about the suggestion that after the Tower of Babel more than 2-3 groups ventured into the Americas when God divided the nations and confounded the languages. Could explain some of the differences in overlapping paleo types of points that may have been peoples expressions of tribe or individuality . Easy to see how that is possible seeing the historical Indians had their customs , dress, weapon and point styles languages ect. They all fell from the same tree but a couple thousand years and there was many distinct groups of people when the first Americans arrived. Just my biblical historical view . I’ve been wanting to do my own version of when the first Americans came (3800 yearsish) With a biblical post antediluvian starting point that would include a much more condensed timeframe based on point types/styles found in North America.
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I remember Kennewick man looked like John Luke Packard, started a bit of a deal. Later DNA came back (matches the young lady from Mexico too) His Mitochondrial is X2A and Y hap is Q-M3 . They look very much Jamon but are very far removed. The bottleneck in Beringia got some rather interesting mixes and caused "founders effect" . We now are starting to know the where they came from but the how when and why, I doubt we will ever know. Look at those Clovis beveled bone rods. We now know they are indeed fore-shafts (big ones too) and we know we have found them in one other place, Siberia 35-40k YBP
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