And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
From: Barbara Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Origins
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been rather astounded at the poor information and simple
disinformation so far on the issue of how long humans have been in the
Americas. That people are still bruiting about 12,000 year benchmark as
responsible is incredible.
In 1959, the Mexican prehistorian Juan Armenta Camacho discovered
remains that pointed to a habitation site near Valsequillo, Mexico, and
in 1962, he and Cynthia Irwin-Williams uncovered four nearby sites where
stone tools and vetebrate fossils were found together. In 1973 a U.S.
geological survey team dated one of the four sites to 250,000 years old.
Virginia Steen-McIntyre, Roald Fryxell, and Harold E. Malde, "Geologic
Evidence for Age of Deposits at Hueyatlaco Archeological Site,
Valsequillo, Mexico," _Quaternary Research_ 16 (1981): 1-17.
The evidence for very ancient human life in the Americas is here;
archeologists, anthropologists, and other Euro-scholars have simply
failed to look very hard for it. Among other things, I believe there is
a firm, _emotional_ resistance to recognizing that Europe was settled
dead last. It was not accidental that publication of the 1973 findings
of Steen-McIntyre et al. was blocked until 1981, and their refusal to
back down from their conclusions was used to make their professional
lives very hard.
This is, by the way, far from the only such site that has been
discovered.
Yes, I'm aware of all the frantic attempts to promote the Hyeyatlaco
site as natural formations, but having read the attacks I found ther
arguments specious and utterly unconvincing. When the same arguments
are used to discredit the same sorts of evidence in Africa, claiming
they are natural formations not human habitation, then I'll listen.
Till then, the attacks seem suspiciously selective.
You know, there's that old Indian joke about the one-way sign on the
Bering straits................<snipped>
Barbara A. Mann
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