Pre-Clovis: Seven years later and JTEM remains unsurpassed
Below is from an article of mine posted as part of
an exchange in 2004 -- Seven years ago. In it I
spell out the true issues regarding the settlement
of America in a way that everyone should be able
to grasp. Later I built on this position, explaining the
crossing of a "population threshold" necessary to
produce Clovis culture.
I'll sum the whole thing up here: The issue is culture.
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I'll tell you what my problem is.
My problem is NOT pre-Clovis man. That I can buy. That I believe.
That is something that I'm sure will one day be proven so
conclusively that not a person on this Earth will ever doubt it.
My problem is with the particular claims. You see, pre-Clovis or
not, we are talking about modern man. We're talking about people
who perfected hunting tens of thousands of years earlier. We're
talking about people who mastered fire & tool making. We're talking
about people who created ornaments and even gods. We're talking
about people who ritually disposed of dead.
None of that is here. None of that is found. "Pre-Clovis" man, as
"found," has none of the features & accomplishments of modern
man, even accomplishments that pre-date him by tens of thousands
of years!
No ornaments... no gods... heck, no art what so ever... no burials...
nothing.
This is the claim that I have trouble believing.
Show me graves. Show me culture. Show me modern man!
