reminder: analogous (insofar as you can say respectfully) communities in Australia have geologically-confirmed oral histories that provide accurate records of events up to about 13,000 years of history. why can’t we believe the same about the peopling of america?https://twitter.com/Archaeofiend/status/1354181394767949824 …
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growing up and even in college, the land bridge-open interior theory was the most popular theory...until anthropologists and fieldworkers in adjacent disciplines FINALLY started listening to the descendant communities who mostly recount coastal hopping
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Replying to @lenofi
yeah the land bridge thing doesn't fit with the stuff found well before it would have existed. I don't see why people don't think Indigenous people had the capacity to use boats.
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everyone shits themselves over St Brendan possibly sailing across the Atlantic circa 500 AD in a small curragh but somehow it is just vastly beyond the realm of possibility that hmmmm maybe others did this before on the Pacific????
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like yeah okay it was considerably earlier than this but humans still had boats for a long time at that stage.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @lenofi
well especially given the extensive evidence of pacific islanders doing the exact same damn thing. like hey, look at this exact thing happening in other contexts
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @lenofi
UMM YEAH. Oh but that argument is that they stopped off at all the different islands so it wasn't actually long distance sailing, APPARENTLY.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @lenofi
*looks with suspicion at the area around hawaii* yeah.... all the islands in the middle, yep
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I'm unsure when they first arrived in Hawaii, I was under the impression it was about 600 years ago but I actually have no idea and that might be totally wrong.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @lenofi
Yeah I'm not actually well-acquainted with the chronology. The point is that this shit is possible.
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