Doug Pensinger wrote:
Brother John wrote:
Consider the marvelous book by Jared Diamond called /Guns, Germs and
Steel. /It is almost all conjecture. It is very good conjecture
perhaps, but conjecture nevertheless.
Have you read it?
Yes, I read it. And I really enjoyed the first half. Then I got bored
with the constant statement of conjectures as fact.
Consider the very important paleoanthropological find in the Columbia
River Valley called the Kenniwick Man. We know from a study of his
skull and other bones that he was not racially related to the Native
Americans that now occupy that part of the world. He seems to have
been of European ancestry or at least his bones are more
European-like than any of the Native Americans today.
I thought that they've concluded that he was probably an ancestor of
the Jomon, who also were the ancestors of the Ainu people of Japan.
Who are "they?" The last I read "they" were of a multitude of opinions
with little if anything upon which to base their opinion.
But what chance is there that we will ever be able to figure out where
he came from, or what happened to his descendants if he had any? There
is no way to answer such questions scientifically.
We do know that he had a stone projectile point embedded in his pelvis.
Yes, but we do not know how he died, or how he came to be where he was.
The stone point was obviously not what killed him because it was an old
injury when he died. --JWR
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