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!
Not only are we discovering more and more things that challenge the accepted narratives, but we are discovering more things that were discovered decades ago that have been deliberately suppressed because they challenged said narratives. The people who dictate the operation of, say, the Smithsonian have a lot to answer for.
I found an article this morning from one of my favorite archaeology blogs. It has more details about canoes, how they were built, and the age of even older remains in North America. http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74790
I think even the most conservative date for human settlement in North America is about 12,000 BC (other estimates using newer finds that haven't filtered all the way through academic entropy add another 10,000 years to that).
Well if you don't have good roads, lakes make traveling easier and there's fish to eat. This makes subsistence living more subsistable (totally a word but I own the copyright).
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!
Or Cra-Cra Chabazzio's Canoe Chop Shop.
The timeline isn't quite right, but this you tube has some interesting history about cataclysmic floods ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u6L-7nf6C4
Thank you!
Not only are we discovering more and more things that challenge the accepted narratives, but we are discovering more things that were discovered decades ago that have been deliberately suppressed because they challenged said narratives. The people who dictate the operation of, say, the Smithsonian have a lot to answer for.
I found an article this morning from one of my favorite archaeology blogs. It has more details about canoes, how they were built, and the age of even older remains in North America. http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74790
Thanks!
I think even the most conservative date for human settlement in North America is about 12,000 BC (other estimates using newer finds that haven't filtered all the way through academic entropy add another 10,000 years to that).
Well if you don't have good roads, lakes make traveling easier and there's fish to eat. This makes subsistence living more subsistable (totally a word but I own the copyright).