Oh for sure, any indication that they don't think any people group with darker skin than a paper bag couldn't have built impressive ancient sites is a giant red flag, a flashing light, and a klaxon siren.
I should add that the thing that gets me about the haplogroups is that it seems innocent at first. It's interesting to see how groups of people migrated across the millennia and what effect they had one one another culturally, and DNA is a way of seeing who met and mingled with who. So the first couple of times, in the right context, it seems perfectly reasonable and quite interesting. But then I start noticing it comes up kind of a lot, and I start having questions about this guy's preoccupations and what point he might be driving at. So it's more sneaky than the ancient aliens thing, at least in my experience.
Yeah, I call it the Pottery/Calipers Ratio, and it must be kept above 1. Real archeologists are all about the sherds. Because cultural diffusion is ultimately more important that the eye color of a particular hunter gatherer goup.
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Oh for sure, any indication that they don't think any people group with darker skin than a paper bag couldn't have built impressive ancient sites is a giant red flag, a flashing light, and a klaxon siren.
I should add that the thing that gets me about the haplogroups is that it seems innocent at first. It's interesting to see how groups of people migrated across the millennia and what effect they had one one another culturally, and DNA is a way of seeing who met and mingled with who. So the first couple of times, in the right context, it seems perfectly reasonable and quite interesting. But then I start noticing it comes up kind of a lot, and I start having questions about this guy's preoccupations and what point he might be driving at. So it's more sneaky than the ancient aliens thing, at least in my experience.
Yeah, I call it the Pottery/Calipers Ratio, and it must be kept above 1. Real archeologists are all about the sherds. Because cultural diffusion is ultimately more important that the eye color of a particular hunter gatherer goup.
That's a perfect name!
Mainland Africa doesn't have any giant impressive fortifications because colonizers blew them all up and looted them for treasure.