Paul Salopek: Going for a seven-year walk

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. So you are positing a level of technology not found anywhere in the world from that time

and excusing the total lack of evidence for it on them only living on a now-flooded seashore, rather than living on the main area of an island, where there's no evidence whatsoever, on any of the islands? The Pacific islands have steep sides; very little area of land will have been lost from sea level rise.

But you think this evidence-free hypothesis should have been followed by this man, in favour of the one with archaeological evidence, because "the Siberian land bridge theory is all but dead" and "island hopping in outrigger canoes is the more logical explanation".