This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tools Suggest Humans Left Africa Earlier Via Arabia (NPR)
I just read that headline too. I am constantly amazed at the simplistic view of the human past promoted by official archeologists. The idea that humans left Africa by a single "route" in a single migration - sort of like a Jews leaving Eygpt with Moses. Archeologists seem incapable of grasping anything but simplistic narratives. And don't get me started on the origins of modern man.
130,000 year old stone tools were found on the shores of Crete last year, and the people who made them certainly didn't swim to the island! Earlier and earlier dates are going to emerge as scientists examine more and more sites.
I just read that headline too. I am constantly amazed at the simplistic view of the human past promoted by official archeologists. The idea that humans left Africa by a single "route" in a single migration - sort of like a Jews leaving Eygpt with Moses. Archeologists seem incapable of grasping anything but simplistic narratives. And don't get me started on the origins of modern man.
ReplyDelete"If the scientific explanation is too hard to understand, make up a deceptively simple fable."
ReplyDelete- Rev. Nocents' Toothbrush (corollary of Occam's Razor)
130,000 year old stone tools were found on the shores of Crete last year, and the people who made them certainly didn't swim to the island! Earlier and earlier dates are going to emerge as scientists examine more and more sites.
ReplyDeleteThe whole "Out of Africa", evolutionary paradigm is crashing and burning right before us. Just my opinion. dc.
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