It makes for an eye-catching headline. Also, the author has posted other articles with the theme of “native peoples did it first/better than westerners”: http

It makes for an eye-catching headline. Also, the author has posted other articles with the theme of “native peoples did it first/better than westerners”: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/did-early-easter-islanders-sail-south-america-europeans http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/did-early-easter-isla... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-wasnt-just-greece-archaeologists-find-early-democratic-societies-americas http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-wasnt-just-greece-... Unearthing democracy's roots: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6330/1114 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6330/1114