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   >>>>Only flat earth and creation believers still think there   
   >>>>were no people in the Americas 40,000 years ago.   
   >>>   
   >>>"It's not that long since anthropologist orthodoxy held to much the same   
   >>>opinion."   
   >>>   
   >>>When was that ever the concensus?  Until the last decades the clovis   
   >model   
   >>>was "orthodoxy" at around 11 k or so years.  That model has since been   
   >>>displaced by newer information.   
   >>   
   >>"Thank you for answering your own question."   
   >>   
   >>You will understand the question given your "orthodoxy" bit above   
   >following   
   >>immediately after a claim for 40k.   
   >   
   >"It's not that long since anthropologist orthodoxy held there were no   
   >people in the Americas 40,000 years ago."   
   >   
   >It is the current view.  20k or so is the most some would want to push it.   
   >40k is not now nor has in past been a concensus or something even close to   
   >it.   
   >   
   >Clovis was displaced with multiple sources of new information.  Any   
   >movement on the current concensus will require similar.  That is how   
   >science works.   
      
   "Oh, but what a task it was to displace Clovis as the limit!   
      
   Eyes were closed, noses were raised in the air, and backs were turned on   
   the evidence for many years.   
      
   No doubt careers were ruined ALSO."   
      
   That is a function of the inertia of any conceptual model in science.  And   
   well it should be least any puff of wind blow it this way and that.  When   
   the new information reaches a form of critical mass only then does it start   
   to change.   
      
   Clovis was displaced by multiple sources of information.  It included   
   finding older archaeology sites and new ways to evaluate linguistic and   
   genetic information.  The current concensus now has the inertia.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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