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The lakebed footprints securely scotch that timeline, and Cerutti blasts it to smithereens. The most that could be left of it is that these late migrations some
by moloch-hai 4y ago
The lakebed footprints securely scotch that timeline, and Cerutti blasts it to smithereens. The most that could be left of it is that these late migrations somehow wholly supplanted earlier populations.
Either the earlier pop. died out before the later crew arrived, or ... well, genocide is a demonstrated human behavior. It is hard to carry out continent-wide without microbial assistance, but they could have had that.
- acdha 4y agoIt’s cool to be excited about this - who wouldn’t be? - but you’re using very definitive language for highly speculative. The article outlines a timeline which, as with the post you’re replying to, is compatible with the White Sands lake footprints. The Cerutti site _could_ completely upset that theory but it’s far from proven that it’s not a misunderstanding, or that it was Homo sapiens and not another hominid. That would be exciting in its own right, but until there’s more confirmation we should be careful not to describe these as facts or highly-probable.
- moloch-hai 4y agoThere seems no possibility of an upset to Cerutti. Bone fragments in the rock faces, greenstick fracturing, adjacent placement of stones and hip-joint ends. The only plausible complaint I have heard of is lack of stone-knife flakes, but the site is still being excavated. That it might have been H. e. is exciting. They did get around!