RE: The 'First Nations' have some explaining to do
February 29, 2012 at 12:30 pm
(This post was last modified: February 29, 2012 at 12:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Again, if I haven't made this perfectly clear in each and every post....I think that the proposition has merit, but I would with-hold any degree of certitude until evidence is in hand.
Let me put this another way, using the example of who may have been the "first americans". Consider how long it took for the notion of an earlier migration to even be considered seriously. In this case is wasn't so much that we didn't have evidence that would lead us to question or conclusions (we absolutely did), it was the artificial certainty, the bets that the majority viewpoint felt safe in making, that directly contributed to hindering any serious investigation (and that's being generous, it would be just as accurate to say that those bets were the only factor in hindering our investigations).
I have a suggestion as to what kind of place we might look, just as proof of concept. Areas of land that were once sea level, connected to the sea, which have since risen, or where the sea has since retreated. We might expect to find something there. Such places do exist, even in the short geologic timespan that we're talking about.
Florida, for example, counterintuitively...(or more generally the SE US)
Let me put this another way, using the example of who may have been the "first americans". Consider how long it took for the notion of an earlier migration to even be considered seriously. In this case is wasn't so much that we didn't have evidence that would lead us to question or conclusions (we absolutely did), it was the artificial certainty, the bets that the majority viewpoint felt safe in making, that directly contributed to hindering any serious investigation (and that's being generous, it would be just as accurate to say that those bets were the only factor in hindering our investigations).
I have a suggestion as to what kind of place we might look, just as proof of concept. Areas of land that were once sea level, connected to the sea, which have since risen, or where the sea has since retreated. We might expect to find something there. Such places do exist, even in the short geologic timespan that we're talking about.
Florida, for example, counterintuitively...(or more generally the SE US)
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