The Knotty Question of When Humans Made the Americas Home - Sapiens

How the Americas were peopled is one of the primary debates in archaeology. Megan Gannon's summary of the current subthemes and scientific finds is welcome. Particularly important is Gannon's attention to the "implications for Native American communities." One Native American scholar notes how the whole archaeological/anthropological discussion affects how Native Americans are viewed by the larger non-Native population, as "Language creates reality for the world." The extreme position about human inhabitation of the New World is embodied in the title Humans and Dinosaurs: The Acambaro Figure Mystery. Brent Swancer covers this strange, colorful, and entertaining facet of North American "archaeo/palaeontology." Shades of Dinotopia! Brent also discusses a clearly bona fide but perhaps even more enigmatic production in The Mystery of the Sayhuite Monolith. We hadn't heard of this remarkable object and thank Brent for alerting us to its presence, and the intriguing puzzles that existence has created for archaeologists. (WM)

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