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Re: Atawallpa was no chicken (An Apology to Richard)
In article <5abbv8$pdf@news1.io.org> yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) writes:
>Richard Fedrick (rfedrick@msn.com) wrote:
>: if he did he would know that the absolute opposite is the
>: case: the epoch-making, nobel prize-winning scientific discovery is
>: what every researcher dreams of...
>
>Answer me this: Why nobody knew about the very early Amazonian pottery --
>the earliest pottery in America -- for nearly 20 years after it was
>discovered?
Yuri, it is true that these early dates weren't widely known among
archaeologists for quite a while. It is also true that these early dates tend
to cast doubt on Meggars, et al.'s claims of a Jomon-Valdivia ceramic link.
So *if* (and I strongly emphasize the word "if" since I wouldn't be so bold
as to presume to know the motives of Meggars et al.) anyone was doing some
covering up it was the person(s) on the diffusionist side of that debate.
Question:
Where did the information first come to light for a wider archaeological
audience? Was it from a diffusionist source or was it from a source in
the mainstream archaeological community?
Answer:
It was from the mainstream archaeological community.
That's why I agree with Richard when he said:
>:[snip] such is the scientific method. it may sometimes be slow, but it
>:works
>
>Your obvious bigotry certainly makes me very _sceptical_ that you possess
>even a little of this "enlightened scepticism" that you preach about.
>Yuri.
Ah, yes Richard is obviously a Bigot, just like I'm obviously an Ethnocentric
Racist, just like Jonathan Sauer is a Biased Plant Geographer. Who gets added
to the list next?
Peter van Rossum
PMV100@PSU.EDU
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