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For the most part, there's nothing surprising here. Because we know so little, and searches for evidence have been driven by preconceptions, and outright supers
by mirimir 7y ago
For the most part, there's nothing surprising here. Because we know so little, and searches for evidence have been driven by preconceptions, and outright superstition.
This jumps out as the key observation :
> By contrast, Mina Weinstein-Evron, an archaeologist at Haifa University who co-discovered the Misliya Cave jawbone suspects that the recent findings are H. sapiens but agrees that the story of anatomically modern human dispersal is still far from clear. “We know nothing. We have a dot of evidence here and a dot of evidence there,” she says. “And then we use these big words like ‘migration’ and ‘dispersal.’ We talk as if they bought a ticket. But they didn’t know where they were going. For them it was probably not even a movement, maybe it was 10 kilometers per generation.”
- mc32 7y agoI guess that would point to generational territoriality driven by pop growth, i.e, each new generation has to expand into new territory with occasional infill when the initial settler generation fades out.
- mirimir 7y agoOr maybe climate change? Maybe even like a peristaltic pump?
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- ephemeralism 7y agoA lot of Stephen Baxter's Evolution novel revolves around this, very highly recommended.
- mirimir 7y agoWow, that's amazing!
- WalterBright 7y agoTens of thousands of people have literally walked across the US continent. Ancient people walking across Eurasia doesn't seem that worthy of surprise, on the contrary, it would seem surprising if they didn't.
- krustyburger 7y agoI seem to recall it being called North America.
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- hansjorg 7y agoNorth America + South America + Middle America = the US continent (also known as "our backyard")
- mirimir 7y agoReminds me of my favorite 60s-70s billboard graffiti: > US out of North America now!
- mywittyname 7y agoI call this geographic collection The Americas.
- neuronic 7y agoThe "US continent". Sounds almost like propaganda for the failed state.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoCalling the US "the failed state" also sounds like propaganda.