ANTHROPOLOGY

I recall in the late 1960's that Anthropology professors discussed the problem involved in 'aging' the primates in this NEW WORLD.

Well the 'consensus' was that 13,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens crept into our New World via the Siberian whatever....

The latest ice age gave a land cross from Siberia to the Americas (read Canada) and from that land cross, people from the East found a new home.

Okay.

But I was also told, in the late 60's that 'man' had been here for 25,000 yearsl

\I have no cites because I am going on memory but that is what I recall from those old days.

Then I review these History Channel episodes and there was a Platonian Atlantis and of course it had something to do with Aliens and of course....

Check these silly episodes out sometime. Hahahahahh I am struck by their dimensions. Hahahahahah.

I will never eschew them because I am, at last, an idiot. I love old UFO controversies. Hahahha

Anyhow, I am continually assaulted by blogs discussing the 13,000 year history of the New World.

And yet, I was informed fifty years ago about a 25,000 year history of humanity in the New world.

Anyway, the NYT presents a wonderful essay on the Brazilian Anthropologists who give us an entirely different discussion concerning their investigations of our NEW WORLD.

The issue does not involve a 13,000 year old Homo Sapiens discovery of the so-called new world and the investigations by these scientists do not even keep to the line of 25,000 years as far as homo sapiens on these two continents.

Do you remember Thor Heyerdahl?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl

This man spent his entire life attempting to demonstrate that 'man' could defy the seas and traverse to the new world.

And he did it!

And we have no problems with regard to the Aborigines of Australia populating that continent 40,000 years ago and only by way of boats, but we have problems with the proposition that 'man' somehow  could not come to the Americas via the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.

I never understood this challenge even 50 years ago.

If sailors could find their way to Australia, how come they could not find their way to the Americas?

The Pacific sailors traversed the Seas in a 4,000 mile diameter circle, why the hell could they not get to the Americas?

It never made any sense to me.

And here was Thor, who never contended that Aliens brought life to this planet (which I really cannot in reality deny) and he just built these boats with the mechanical means available thousands of years ago.

Well the CONSENSUS seems to be that the Old World found the New World 13,000 years ago or 25.000 years ago when I was schooled.

But, Thor looks better these days, at least I think so. Hahhaha

I came across this NYT monograph and it really attracted my attention.

Before I get into this discussion, I am reminded of a Leaky Story.

Leaky is in Africa, of course, and he finds all these 'split' rocks and stones and he comes to the conclusion that pre humans or early humans worked to make these rock fragments into tools.

Now, this is from memory with no links, but Leaky was brought back to America in order to sell him, basically. And so Leaky ends up here to give speeches and such (cause all these folks knew how to make bucks even back then) and he cannot help himself in that he goes off to his own explorations and discovers other split rocks IN THE GOOD OLE US OF A, (hahahhahahaha) and decides to publish his findings that Early Man Was here. Hahahahhahaha

So the powers that be, send Leaky back to Africa as fast as was possible at the time. Hahahahah

You can split rocks intentionally for some purpose like making spear heads or arrow heads or some other machinations or you can watch them split through rock slides. Hahhaha

This NYT essay really takes my previous assumptions to task.

I mean, there are Brazilian Anthropologists who are sure that Homo Sapiens were on these two New World Continents 100,000 years ago! And these anthropologists use the same techniques as the establishment by extracting the ashes from old 'fire places' created by Homo Sapiens and using carbon dating techniques.

And, there are 'experts' who disagree as to whether or not Homo Sapiens Sapiens have even been on this planet for 100,000 years or 250,000 years.

This is a big deal. At least in my tiny mind.

More recently, numerous findings have challenged that narrative. In Texas,archaeologists said in 2011 that they had found projectile points showing that hunter-gatherers had reached another site, known as Buttermilk Creek, as early as 15,500 years ago. Similarly, analysis of human DNAfound at an Oregon cave determined that humans were there 14,000 years ago...

Paleontologists in Uruguay published findings in November suggesting that humans hunted giant sloths there about 30,000 years ago. All the way in southern Chile, Tom D. Dillehay, an anthropologist at Vanderbilt University, has shown that humans lived at a coastal site called Monte Verde as early as 14,800 years ago...

Having their findings disputed is nothing new for the archaeologists working at Serra da Capivara. Dr. Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist who pioneered the excavations, asserted more than two decades ago that her team had found evidence in the form of charcoal from hearth fires that humans had lived here about 48,000 years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries-challenge-beliefs-on-humans-arrival-in-the-americas.html?ref=science

Go ahead and view the video provided. NYT has provided a really fine essay.

I have always, and I mean always been intrigued by the cave paintings.

Picasso went nuts when he first viewed them in Spain and of course it changed his entire artistry.

But in the New World, we have the same cave paintings.

I always thought it strange that we have pyramids in the New World.

My Anthropology Profs would proffer that the entire problems relate to the definition of what a pyramid is? But damn, look at the Cambodian pyramids and then go to the Mayan Peninsula and...

WHY SHOULD I TAKE SO MUCH TIME ON A SUBJECT THAT SEEMS TO WANDER?

Look.

Please read this wonderful essay on the NYT. How often do we get to read something on the web over 2 pages?

It is fun to read.

But my point is this.

How do we really know what we know?

The repubs have taken the challenge on all of this.

Forget the crap about the universe being 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

Forget the crap about THE FLOOD wiping out all the sons and daughters of the consummation of Angels and Women and ….

There really is and always has been this schism between the ESTABLISHMENT SCIENTISTS and the interested scientists.

I do not have the cite right now, but there have been discoveries concerning ancient men who were found to be Caucasian and buried in the New World tens of thousands of years ago. It is a small percentage of all found skeletons, but Caucasian skeletons do exist.

Take a look at the footage available at this NYT post.

It is worth your while at least, it was worth my while. I mean I spent three years getting a four year degree in Anthropology.

It was in my early 20's that I fell in love with Thor (I mean I always liked nekked ladies and such) but Thor built the damn boats and then he went ahead and sailed them!

If Man could not cross the Atlantic 20,000 years ago or 50,000 years ago with trade winds and such, how the hell did Man get to Australia?

Okay, so the point?

The RIGHT loves to attack the ESTABLISHMENT Scientific Community.

There is no climate problems created by Man because Exxon's scientists tell us so!

We really have no idea how old the universe is let alone Earth because we have no pix?

Well, here is this Brazilian Anthropologist who contends that 'Man' has been in this New World for a hundred thousand years.

There are a whole bunch of issues that might arise from my simple brief.

For instance:

Why do we just accept what the 'experts' tell us?

What is accepted science?

WHAT IS CONSENSUS?

I just watched another scenario from THE HISTORY CHANNEL telling me about ancient aliens.

As far as I can tell, Trigonometry can tell me how far we are from the Sun.

And that same science can tell me how far Jupiter is from the Sun.

So what do I know, really?

Well, I can tell you this for sure, new findings from Anthropologists in Brazil, give me a real pause as to when the first 'homo sapiens' actually walked in the New World.

Did Noah really grab 2 million species and put them two by two in an ark to save them from extinction?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FRICKIN WAY. AHHAHAHAHAH But does the Establishment Scientific Community (whatever the hell that means) know everything?

NO FRICKIN WAY.

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Oh and if you wish to see the origin of FOX NEWS, read this nice essay on Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/29/rumor_gossip_nonsense_how_the_news_became_a_nightmare/

It is kind of fun. haaahaahahahahah