-Caveat Lector-
Bucky Fuller said in Critical Path that the first towns grew up around
rivers and coasts, and the first technologies after primitive tools
were sailing technologies. It is now becoming clear that Bucky was right.
Joshua2
Das GOAT wrote:
>
> -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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