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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (35464)	4/22/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Lather, I will try to find out more about the mummies and cocaine later. I don't really feel like doing research at the moment, but as I recall, all the other ways they could test positive for cocaine were reviewed and debunked on the program we both watched. I think my primary point is being missed, and that is that archaeology/anthropology are very conservative sciences, full of academics who are utterly unwilling to consider any evidence outside of what is already generally accepted as true, because they are intellectual cowards, afraid of jeopardizing their tenure. The mummies full of cocaine and the contemporary Roman glass jars sunk in that shipwreck off South America are one amazing coincidence, and I will try harder to dig up more scientific data on it if I can. But there are all sorts of other anomalies not explicable by traditional archaeological understandings, either. The Caucasian mummies found in China with long, braided red and blonde hair and Celtic handwoven plaid wool clothing is another example of how far ancient peoples actually migrated; the best evidence suggests these people rode to China on their horses from central Europe. They settled in China, and the wooden wagon styles from that locale still in use today have been traced back to European designs. They bred with the indigenous population, many of whom still have European features. Another compelling story is the cover article in Newsweek this week, and it is about the probability of multiple migrations to America over a much longer time period than was previously thought possible. And we are talking Europeans, South Asians, perhaps Australian aboriginals--a multitude of cultures starting much earlier than 11,000 years ago at Clovis, New Mexico, where archaeologists proclaimed that the oldest Americans were discovered. In fact, one of the most interesting things in this article is how archaeologists simply didn't dig down below remains they dated at 11,000 years, because they simply accepted the conventional wisdom in their field instead of doing independent research: newsweek.com So I essentially think most archaeology is bunk, and am extremely happy that scientists who are willing to think outside of the academic box and have the courage to trust their data are becoming more prominent and accepted. I think we will eventually all accept that early men were very capable of long journeys, and that the globe was populated by people from several different continents thousands and thousands of years before we thought it was.