Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Ancient Americas" channel.

  1. Archaic and pre-classic era dates are more than a little arbitrary as there's nothing to even carbon date
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  2. No. As he said in the video, not a single cut mammoth bone exists in North America. He gives these big round numbers of the earliest American peoples but keep in mind almost all the artifacts they speak of are impossible to carbon date and the earliest provable human settlement in the Americas are 7th century Olmec in the south of Mexico. You also see in the video that these cultures grew more densely populated and settled over time, but will still largely nomadic when Europeans arrived, clearly indicating there was simply not enough time between first human arrival and first written records for the population to expand to full capacity like it did in Mexico.
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  3. BTW, this land corresponds to many of the gang-controlled areas of Mexico
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  4. It really is. In some parts of rural Mexico the elites practice polygamy despite it being illegal. Also, the region discussed is mostly ruled by gangs right now.
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  5. @AncientAmericas  I bring it up because the most popular theory about the Indian's origins are explorers from 1st century AD China that disappeared
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  6. Imagine tying knots for an hour just to write one sentence
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  7. This is an American channel
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  8. Correction: The plains are about twice the size as what you show on the map. Everything from the Mississippi to the Rockies is flat as a pancake and covered in grass. There are also more deer/elk in this region now than ever before because there are only humans to hunt them.
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  9.  @AncientAmericas  "experts" also don't count cow pastures as prairie lands.
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  10. The Cree were neither that big, nor that old, nor were they a single nation.
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  11. Teuchitlan sounds like a dialect pronounciation of Tenochtitlan.
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  12. All the desert plants in the archaic period and the cultural connections to Mexico and the east in the following periods. These can be easily explained if one assumes there was a Dust Bowl... That lasted centuries.
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  13. Except it's only broken by barbed fenses and tree lines. It's all still endless grass.
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