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left-of-center2012

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of course they were... FirstLight Mar 2021 #1
"came via boat and other means" left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 #3
sorry...yeah...not spaceships at all ;) lol FirstLight Mar 2021 #4
Totally fascinating Wicked Blue Mar 2021 #2
a further reason(ing) for abandoning stopdiggin Mar 2021 #5
Have seen references to the copper mining in the Great Lakes area multiple times in recent years! Judi Lynn Mar 2021 #6

FirstLight

(13,357 posts)
1. of course they were...
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 02:23 PM
Mar 2021

I'm thinking new dating and re-dating is eventually going to shift our whole bnarrative about these pre-historic cultures and their actual advancemants and technology. I'm a firm belilever that native north & south americans came via boat and other means, not just the land-bridge theory.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
3. "came via boat and other means"
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 02:34 PM
Mar 2021

1, What 'other means' other than by foot or water are there?

2. There has already been written articles that they came by boat.

"Most archaeologists think the first Americans arrived by boat.
Now, they’re beginning to prove it.:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/most-archaeologists-think-first-americans-arrived-boat-now-they-re-beginning-prove-it

FirstLight

(13,357 posts)
4. sorry...yeah...not spaceships at all ;) lol
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 02:47 PM
Mar 2021

kidding!

Wicked Blue

(5,826 posts)
2. Totally fascinating
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 02:24 PM
Mar 2021

Might this be a harbinger of our current society's path toward de-evolution?

stopdiggin

(11,292 posts)
5. a further reason(ing) for abandoning
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 03:45 PM
Mar 2021

the technology (provided in the paper) is that there was very little 'functional' advantage involved in the copper tools (with some few exceptions) over easily made stone and bone replacements. i.e. - in practical terms, a stone arrowhead (axe or knife) got the job done equally well.

Still -- really interesting that this technology would be almost entirely abandoned. That's unusual. Kind of wondering if we aren't looking at displaced (or replaced) populations?

Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
6. Have seen references to the copper mining in the Great Lakes area multiple times in recent years!
Thu Mar 25, 2021, 08:29 PM
Mar 2021

It's tremendous seeing your article, and actual tools created on this continent made with the copper. The timeline compares so well with what I've seen before, also.

The very idea copper tools made during that remote time is exciting. They are amazing.

Thank you, so much. It's a real spirit lifter finding your post, left of center.

An intriguing book which refers to this subject, among others, was

1421: The Year China Discovered America Paperback – June 3, 2008
by Gavin Menzies


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