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When Were the Americas Populated?
evil agent passes along an article in Scientific American reporting that new radiocarbon dating techniques have cast doubt on the accepted story of how the Americas were populated. In the traditional view, "[M]igrants out of northeast Asia slipped into the Americas bearing finely shaped stone projectiles, so-called 'Clovis points,' after the town in New Mexico where they were first uncovered. This Clovis culture rapidly spread throughout the empty continents and by 1,000 years after their arrival had reached the southernmost tip of what is now South America, making them the original ancestors of indigenous Americans." The new dating of Clovis sites suggests that "Clovis" was not a people, but rather a technology. That is, a new and more efficient method of making arrowheads for hunting spread rapidly through a pre-existing population in both North and South America, over at most 350 years.
The Americas were populated by English pilgrims. That's why we have thanksgiving. Never mind about those damn injins.
If you follow the work of Michael Cremo you will learn that modern human skeletons
:-)
have been found in strata deposited millions of years old and all over the world.
http://www.mcremo.com/cremo.htm
His book "Forbidden Archaeology" is a huge tome discussing hundreds of sites where
anomalous findings challenge (rip apart) todays dogmas in the field and it is also
an interesting read to see how the religion of western science preserves the purity
of its creed
> [modern humans] have been around for 100's of thousands of years and they are not stupid.
How do you explain "windows being the dominant OS (yet)", then? Just curious.
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I hope the guy thought of patenting his new arrowhead technology! Spread over 2 continents in less than 350 years! he must have made tons of cash or chicken heads, bear furs, or whatever :)
Think the patent still holds ?
There were people in America using different kinds of arrowheads fashioned from flint. Then, some 11000 years ago, near where Albuquerque, New Mexio would be, an arrowhead maker named Beak Doors created a kind of arrowheads for his company Microhard and aggressively promoted it. Many of his detractors claimed he was using illegal methods and that his arrowheads were not superior to other competitors. But Corporate tribals never learned to distinguish between true interoperability and Microhard compatibility. Microhard arrowheads eventually achieved vendor-lock in the tribal societies. That is how what we now call clovis points became ubiquitous in the Americas.
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It was to get the jewels back. There were many hardships and we almost gave up when we lost Elenwe...
Evidence is emerging that use of clovis point technology was strictly limited to tribes and individuals who could pay periodic tribute to a cult of shamans located in the Pacific Northwest.
Stela have been decoded showing a large and round-headed cult leader foaming at the mouth and shouting "Clovis! Clovis! Clovis", whipping the masses into a frenzy, and paying off spear-makers to keep them from making spears without clovis points.
They further cemented their status by periodically introducing pointless "improvements" in the clovis point - first obsidian, then flint, then other differences, and via their network forcing hunters to use their clovis points or starve. The points also grew enormously in size over time.
The technology's run came to an end as the points grew with each successive hunting season until the point was many times larger than the spear it was grafted onto, making it effectively worthless. The last clovis point technology, called "Clovis 9000 B.C.", took four men and an ox to launch at the wild turkey it was designed to bring down.
Conflicting evidence from about the same time shows that much of this technology may have been preceded or even discovered by tribes located further south on the coast.
Yeah, still, they could've put all their cities in coinage and bought a shitload of phalanxes every couple of turns. I still think the Aztecs could have beat Cortez. Hell, even a few diplomats could have stolen the techs in a few turns after Cortez took his first city!
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