Humans in America 130,000 yrs ago?

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

Could History of Humans in America Be Rewritten by Broken Mastodon Bones?

[C-Mag]

I need to share an anecdote.
When this story broke I was working a construction project in an Archeologically sensitive area. Basically we had some old flint knapping going on. We had an Arch on site and she was a PHD. Gotta tell you I love talking, debating and generally screwing with PHDs. To stereotype, PHDs are pompous asses that constantly must speak in tongues of their own PHD language, using words that just don't belong in normal conversation and should be reserved for technical and scientific research papers. Hash is one of the few that speaks succinctly and plainly. Personally, I think PHDs are mostly trying to justify and aggrandize their 12 years of schools and hundreds of thousands spent getting there. Anyway, I digress.

I brought this story up while she was digging and showing me chert fragments and she said 130,000 years couldn't possibly be right and went on a ranting lecture about Pre-Columbian North America............ I was about to ask for a syllabus

I'm just standing there nodding occasionally, thinking to myself, WOW, I really touched a raw nerve there.

[TheReal_ND]

Yep. Pretty much what happens from what I hear. Academia is very reluctant when it comes to new concepts because they are so invested in what they know.