donald r raab Wrote:
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> 6. How in the world do you have trade without
> contact even if indirect.
Obviously, you have trade through intermediaries. The craftsman in Mesoamerica doesn't travel all the way to California to peddle his wares; the object passes from trader to trader. Thus, there is indirect contact between the two endpoints, but not necessarily direct contact.

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> And I forgot a couple of additional questions.
> 7. What degree does the archeologist have? Is he
> a gringo?

????? Does that mean you're now charging the mainstream with endemic racism?

> 8. How much experience does he have?
> 9. Is this paper in a peer reviewed journal.
> Magzines don't count.
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> There is NO argument with asking the questions.
> They are necessary. it is when (and that is
> usually the case for mainstream) these serve to
> marginalize,hoax and otherwise mythologise
> anything that doesn't fit the pardigm. In other
> words an agenda beyond getting it right.

It appears you think the "mainstream" just uses valid questions to discredit ideas that you think are cool. You're attacking a straw man again. Do you actually know any professional archaeologists? Do you know anything about the advances that archaeological method and theory have gone through in the last century, and how frequently the paradigm has changed in response to new evidence or new theoretical approaches?

[Note to Kat: I was not questioning you above, just reacting to Donald's implication that there was something sinister about asking such perfectly normal questions.]