re: How big can an arrowhead be? Asking because these are pretty big.

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But there’s no evidence to support that date!” they say. Yeah, no shite. Do you know how far down in the dirt that kind of evidence would be? Archeologists don’t even think to dig that far down because they don’t think there is a reason to

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That’s what I was referring to above. The Clovis first archaeologists fight anything older tooth and nail. And to your point, if you don’t look for it you won’t find it.

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The Clovis first archaeologists fight anything older tooth and nail.

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This is what has soured me on the "scientific community" in general. I've always been a skeptical personality since childhood, I'm naturally that way. And I'm proud of it, the world absolutely needs skeptics and assholes and naysayers to provide balance to the Force.

But if someone is an objective scientist, new information discovered by newer younger scientists shouldn't be met with the kind of hostility that I've seen in anthropology, and I'm sure in many other fields of science.

It might even be because they feel like they've climbed the mountain, achieved everything they ever wanted to achieve, then find out that mountain goes much higher than what they've climbed, and can't accept it. All the papers I read were wrong? All the papers I wrote were wrong?

Ego?

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All the papers I read were wrong? All the papers I wrote were wrong? Ego?

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Ego, money, tenure, stubbornness, the human flaw of not believing what you don’t want to be true. The usual suspects.