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What, you never heard of the Old Copper Culture?
Interesting. No I hadn't heard. Regardless it appears they did little more than cold hammer, and grind unusually pure ore, in much the manner they would have stone, bone, or wood. And when the easy pickings ran out, they didn't pursue refinement, and continued usage. Much akin to the Aztecs using gold. It could be worked cold, as such that's what they did. Despite this, they were still for all intents, and purposes a stone age culture...
Pie in the sky conjecture posited by the the single radio carbon dating of one bone, mixed in with heavy doses of Grahm Hancock style imaginary history. In short you link is a joke.
However, the oldest route for importation of chickens to the Americas appears to be through Polynesia prior to Columbus. At the archaeological site of El Arenal in coastal Chile, excavators found 50 chicken bones that represented at least five different chickens. As Storey and colleagues report in another article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the site has been confidently dated to 700-1390 AD, meaning these bones are the earliest evidence of chickens in the Americas, having arrived at least a century before Columbus.
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And when the easy pickings ran out, they didn't pursue refinement, and continued usage.
Tecumseh was forming a warband of over 1,000 warriors, and his group and others had been attacking settlers and settlements for months prior. And the conflict continued for years afterwards
And Tecumsah's statue at The US Naval Academy, is honored and revered.
He is lauded as a noble adversary.
"According to Storey and colleagues, the domestic chicken came to the Americas by multiple routes."Wow, you so easily just reject something because you do not want to believe it.
Ancient DNA Explains How Chickens Got To The Americas
Why did the chicken cross the Pacific? To get to your Thanksgiving table!
Here is the entire study, in case you are actually interested.
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But it was not "one bone", and it is now pretty widely accepted.
Just like the Old Copper Culture, simply because you have never heard of it, does not mean it did not exist.
I prefer more solid, peer reviewed studies
Savages ? calling Native Indians savages Lol!, some of you people have not learned a damn thing since Sand Creek or Wounded Knee through to the lynchings of black people and the Genocidal wars that have killed millions like Vietnam, and you talk of savages.
The Aztecs had the wheel as a toy. The North American Natives never developed the wheel. They hauled goods on a sled called a travois. It could be pulled by a horse or even a dog.That is not true at all, they were advancing.
One thing that should be remembered, is that today most anthropologists believe that North American Indians were the first to use copper. Actually predating the use in Eurasia by at least 2,000 years. So quite literally, while those in Europe, Asia, and Africa were still using at most stone tools and weapons, a lot of the Americas were already using copper. Primarily because North America has the largest deposit of native copper on the planet. So literally all they had to do was pull it out of the ground and beat it into shape.
However, that same easy to use copper was also long term the problem, as they never had to develop the refining or smelting techniques that were used in the rest of the world to actually convert copper ore into a useful end product. And without that, they never looked into alloys, like bronze. There were a few cultures that actually did develop bronze by 1500, but it had barely made the leap from jewelry to tools, and not really to weapons yet.
They were advancing, but much more slowly as they had a much lower population density. And they had other barriers that slowed their progress. Like the aforementioned large amounts of native copper, so they never had to learn about smelting and refining raw ore. Also, the very noticeable lack of any kind of animals that could be domesticated into beasts of burden. The rest of the world had camels, horses, cattle, donkeys, and more that could be domesticated into beasts of burden. The Americas had none of that, other than in South America where they had the llama.
Lack of any animals that could be readily domesticated other than chickens and ducks also did a lot to hold back their agricultural and technological development. That is why I often laugh when people wonder that they did not have the wheel. Oh, they had it, but only for toys. Because quite literally, without an animal to pull a cart like oxen or horses, what use is a cart in the first place? Why would anybody invent something they could not use?
I bet you regret you could not have been there to wipe some out.No written language,no wheel,believe in spirits wantonly killing other tribes.
Yeah I'd call them savages because thats what they were.
No written language. no wheel, believe in spirits wantonly killing other tribes
The Mayans, the Aztecs, the Zapotecs, the Incans, the Olmecs. They all had written languages.
I bet you regret you could not have been there to wipe some out.
The Mayans, the Aztecs, the Zapotecs, the Incans, the Olmecs. They all had written languages.
And they did indeed have the wheel. What they lacked was beasts of burden to pull anything even remotely like a cart. So there was never any reason to develop it into anything useful.
And you really do not know much ab out Indian mythology, do you? That is nothing like any of their beliefs, and I would love you to give some kinds of links saying that is anything even close to true.
The Aztecs had the wheel as a toy. The North American Natives never developed the wheel. They hauled goods on a sled called a travois. It could be pulled by a horse or even a dog.
There was no written language and little way to disseminate information.
The relationship between the Natives and European settlers was far from simply divided between enemies. It was quite complicated. The Natives had no concept of property. The mere idea of owning land was unheard of. They knew hunting rights. When whites offered to buy land, the Indians were happy to sell. They just sold the hunting land of other tribes. Then the whites put up fences. Certainly cause for war.
