> If there really had been pre-Clovis settlement, we would already know it and would no longer be arguing about it. I do like Jared Diamonds' books, I read...

> If there really had been pre-Clovis settlement, we would already know it and would no longer be arguing about it. I do like Jared Diamonds' books, I read... a lot of them, perhaps all of them. But his reasoning - quoted above - is just plain wrong. He fails at grasping at how the basic logic works. Example: "We did not find it so far" - which, according to Jared, rests the case -- does not mean "it does not exist". As per that logic, the discovery of Denisovans and Homo Florensiensis can be ignored, because they came up after the Jared's decree that "we did not find it so far". That's just silly.