Settled science...
Yeah, right. The more that is found, the less we actually know. A three thousand plus year old parking lot???
Wisconsin officials recently announced the discovery of a trove of ancient canoes in an underwater “parking lot” of sorts — including one that predates the Pyramids of Giza.
The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) announced this month that its experts have identified 14 canoes in Madison’s Lake Mendota so far, six of which were found this spring. The WHS worked with the First Nations of Wisconsin during the research process, a release noted.
The WHS also recovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in 2021 and retrieved another 3,000-year-old one in 2022.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
So, this kinda puts paid to the how long people have been in North America... again...
There is also the whole issue of travel and trade that now need to be reviewed for possible new revelations and research.
Who did it, WHY there, and why over thousands of years? What did our forebears know that we don’t know today? Was there a trading area, a town, a city near there? What did the land form look like 3000 years ago?
I have no idea, but I know that there are professionals who are now scratching their heads and the mental gymnastics must be rather interesting...
Anybody got in ideas???
Ancient history has fascinated me since I was in middle school. I even took an anthropology class in college that was sadly underwhelming because of the professor's already-woke bias. 🤦♂️
Seeing the dates revised to earlier and earlier doesn't surprise me. Tech used in digs has improved the quality of knowledge: Carbon-14 dating and tree rings in preserved wood were the first step in more accurate dating. 🧐
If you want to see how far our knowledge is advancing, watch a Dan Davis YouTube video on ancient history.
A recent video was full of revelations from DNA research that re-evaluates the "who" in the equation of the ancient past.
It's also slowly removing the gentle savage label from the past that people like my anthropology professor seem determined to glue in place over "the past." 🙄
Probably a place that gets really nasty storms and those canoes sunk there when someone was unlucky enough to be caught out on the water.
That or Crazy Oo-Tar, the canoe salesman! Had his business there and that's where him (and his descendants who kept 'Crazy Oo-Tar Canoe Sales' running for many generations) parked the clunkers they couldn't sell, until those damnable vikings showed up with their longboats and ran them out of business!