-Caveat Lector-
Who were the first Americans?
This is beginning to sound like a silly academic question on the order
of "Who were the first Europeans?" or "Who were the first Asians"?
Like, who were the first people in the Northern Hemisphere? In the
Southern?
The moment we admit the very real possibility --indeed, the likelihood
now-- that "primitive" human beings were able to navigate the world's oceans
far earlier than we've assumed --THOUSANDS of years before urban
civilization-- we run into a little problem ... We then have to deal with
the likely phenomenon of MULTIPLE ethnic groups traversing the planet and
colonizing spots on each and every continent, at one period or another, even
in PREHISTORIC times.
The whole planet has ALWAYS been potentially within the reach of any
human being willing to travel, and almost every ancient civilization was more
or less "global" in its scope, through trade missions, colonial expeditions,
and expanding territorial border wars. So, what's the big deal? If we widen
our lens on "history" from FOUR thousand years to FORTY thousand, we find
that "everybody" has been around "everywhere."
Once the mongrel cat is out of the bag, and the sacred myths of any
given race's genetic preeminence and cultural superiority are set reeling
from the blows delivered by PRE-historic archeological findings around the
globe, what's the point of all this looking for "the FIRST" men "arriving" on
ANY continent from "elsewhere"? Is there some kind of politicized Olympic
"race"1 to determine which "race"2 travelled farthest the fastest and
earliest, offering gold, silver, or bronze medals, prizes worth their weight
in vanity?
An attempt to argue continental-scale "eminent domain" via retroactive deeds
of title?
A cloud of meta-political pretensions still hangs dark and heavy over this
"battlefield"
which, to archeologists at ground-level, looks more like a round-robin game
of tag ...
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