United States
It’s not me who is going nuts… or is it?
You decide.
According to new research regarding the Pueblo culture – and in this case the most famous location, Chaco Canyon – the people must have imported most of their food crops, which would mainly have consisted of corn. Apparently.
Chaco Canyon is famous because it has thrown up a deep mystery – the people seemingly disappeared and there is no evidence of them migrating elsewhere. It is, without doubt, one of the great mysteries of archaeology and it often brings up a variety paranormal explanations because normal ones don’t hold up to scrutiny. Or do they?
A new report published last month provides evidence that the Pueblo people of Chaco Canyon imported their food. Much of the article is a lot of nonsense and guesswork (as usual), but at least they provide the sensible idea that, actually, not that many people lived there. It has always been suggested the “town” had a population of several thousand, based on the quantity of housing. No one seems to have thought of the idea that Chaco Canyon may have been a ceremonial centre and maybe, just maybe, only a few people actually lived there, or even none at all, and that the site was perhaps used only for religious celebrations. Shelberg, however, had already concluded in 1982 that “Chaco Canyon does not have enough arable land of sufficient agricultural quality to support even a small residential population”. That was 35 years ago.
The mind boggles, sometimes, at the stupidity. I am pulling my hair out at this article, for in 2011 a paper was released with exactly the same conclusions – that the Pueblo People of Chaco Canyon imported their food. The paper is in the comments section. In fact those conclusions were made in 2008 by Larry Benson, but the 2012 paper contains more detail.
I wonder how many years of research it took them to conclude something that was already concluded?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/uoca-acc122916.php
Tibet
In my book, The Evolution, Tibet was one of the first places settled after the fall of “Atlantis”, at least ten thousand years ago.
In this new report, scientists believe that the high Tibetan plateau was first populated between 13,000 and 7,400 years ago, much earlier than the previously accepted date of 5,200 year ago. I am forever annoyed with the date of “5,200 years ago” because it so-say pinpoints another stupid – and completely dismissible – theory that people started settling in places at the onset of agricultural practices. In other words, that is the time in history that human beings supposedly stopped wandering and hunting for food and instead settled in places and started farming. If you believe that then you are also likely to believe that bananas are racing car drivers on Thursday afternoons.
The problem with that theory – and most importantly that date – is that it has been applied to almost all human settlements all over the world, as if everybody suddenly turned to farming at the same time. I think it is more likely that people just simply got bored of wandering and exploring, and found valuable sources of food at any particular location that was, on the surface, a safe place to settle. Also, I absolutely do not believe the notion that humans wandered in certain directions because they were following the herds that provided their food. If you think about it, that is a very stupid idea. The animals will know they are being followed – they aren’t as daft as we think they are. Human being wandered because it is in our nature to explore. That’s it. They generally followed river valleys, for obvious reasons, not game.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uow-rsn010517.php
Canada
As you know one of my areas of expertise is the peopling of the Americas. And as you also know by now I do not believe the prevailing migration theories that have been put forward, and that I strongly believe humans were in the Americas long before the 13,000-or-so years that has been attributed to that theory.
That theory has been long put to bed anyway as far as I am concerned. Only the idiotic peer review process that allows knowledge to be handed down to the rest of us is getting in the way of the majority of findings, since it halts those reports from being accepted by mainstream science. The peer review process is not advancing science at all. It is disabling it, and keeping the rest of us from knowing truth.
Yet again we have hard evidence of humans in the Americas long before Clovis, and in this case in Canada around 24,000 years ago.
China
The scabbard might have deteriorated over the last two thousand years and more, but the sword inside amazed archaeologists when it was found to be in near-perfect condition.
The sword was found in a tomb in the Xinyang province, but it is not yet known who it belonged to since China, at that time, was awash with warring states before the great emperors eventually took control.
Although just about everything is known about ancient China’s sword making techniques, this particular sword will shed more light (excuse the pun) on the weapons used in the period of turmoil between 475 and 221 BC.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-a-2300yearold-sword-still-shining