so like i never use cash right, everything is either direct deposit / by card / etc. so most of my interactions with money are completely abstract to me. and it just fucks me up that this truly intangible & random number in my bank acct is dictating my life like. its not even real or representative of my work or of what i deserve. capitalism is fucking weird and its kinda crazy that ppl truly believe that this system is ‘natural’ when it relies so much on arbitrary symbolic meaning rather than inherent value
With all the bs that has happened to me recently at least I can find peace in volunteering at an archaeology lab. Now that I'm free of that "socialist" cult I can actually focus on builing up my career and moving my life forward.
A team of anthropologists from several institutions in the U.S. has offered a Perspective piece in the journal Science outlining current theories regarding the first humans to populate the Americas. In their paper, they scrap the conventional view that Clovis people making their way across a Bering land bridge were the first to arrive in the Americas—more recent evidence suggests others arrived far earlier, likely using boats to travel just offshore.
As the authors note, for most of the last century, the accepted theory of humans’ first arrival was via the land bridge in what is now the Bering Strait—at the time, sea levels would have been much lower. Those early settlers, named the Clovis people, were theorized to have traveled down a central ice-free corridor into what is now the U.S. approximately 13,500 years ago. But, as the authors also note, evidence since the late 1980s has shown that there were people living in parts of the Americas long before the time of the Clovis migration. Archaeological evidence of people living on islands off of Asia and on the North and South American coasts (some as far south as Chile) has been found going as far back as 14,000 to 18,000 years ago. Evidence has also been found of people living in the North American interior as far back as 16,000 years ago.
All this new evidence, the authors report, has caused most experts in the field to abandon the idea of the Clovis people as the first to arrive. Most now believe that the first people to arrive did so by boat rather than walking, and they did it by following the coasts, not through the interior. This would have been possible, the authors note, because of what has come to be known as the kelp highway—kelp forests growing just offshore. All that kelp, it has been noted, would have provided a rich habitat for sea creatures upon which hearty travelers could feast.
The authors conclude by noting that too little research has been done offshore—the early travelers would have been residing mostly on land that is now covered by the sea due to higher worldwide ocean levels. If the scientific community truly wants to learn more about human migration to the Americas, they suggest, more work needs to be done offshore.
Explore further: New evidence – Clovis people not first to populate North America
More information: Todd J. Braje et al. Finding the first Americans, Science (2017). DOI: 10.1126/science.aao5473
Summary
For much of the 20th century, most archaeologists believed humans first colonized the Americas ∼13,500 years ago via an overland route that crossed Beringia and followed a long and narrow, mostly ice-free corridor to the vast plains of central North America. There, Clovis people and their descendants hunted large game and spread rapidly through the New World. Twentieth-century discoveries of distinctive Clovis artifacts throughout North America, some associated with mammoth or mastodon kill sites, supported this “Clovis-first” model. North America’s coastlines and their rich marine, estuarine, riverine, and terrestrial ecosystems were peripheral to the story of how and when the Americas were first settled by humans. Recent work along the Pacific coastlines of North and South America has revealed that these environments were settled early and continuously provided a rich diversity of subsistence options and technological resources for New World hunter-gatherers.
It’s almost certainly impossible that Polynesians were the ancestors of Native Americans. Polynesians did not reach Hawaii and Easter Island until at least 1000 AD, but I heard as late was 1200 AD. People were living in the Americas for almost twenty thousand years at that point.
But if you are suggesting Polynesian ancestors were the paleoindian ancestors that settled the Americas, I would like to know the evidence that links the two.
Clovis was accepted to be true based on the available evidence. When undeniable new evidence was uncovered and accepted, it required a change to models (not theories) of humans populating the Americas. Science changes with new evidence. If science did not, it would be belief and not science. I don’t quite understand the controversy regarding model changes.
And in science cannot prove something 100%. You can test a model a million different ways and get the same result each time and it will never be fully proven. All it takes is the one instance that breaks a model to disprove things. The best you can do is use multiple lines of evidence to support a hypothesis.
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