Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Stefan Milo" channel.

  1.  @bellakaldera3305  It's possible there was a dry land connection with points west, possibly even Timor to the Southeast. It all depends on just how deep the channels are between the islands. For the you need a depth chart. Even then Indonesia is one of the most geological active areas on the planet. The may have been uplift and subsidence. During the Glacial Maximum the sea levels where so much lower that there was a large area of dry land in the region
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  2. Would a Roman Embassy count as a outpost. Or private trading groups. I could easily see some Romans having reached India
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  3. Just how far back does one go. Far enough and we're all African.
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  4.  @Eidolon1andOnly  If they have glaze on the pottery they've got kilns. One thing I think societies need to make the jump to metals is a readily accessible and workable source of metal. And that really only works with things like float copper and iron nickel meteors without smelting.
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  5. I for one object to the "far right archeology" definition. I'm not saying fringe groups can't or won't latch on too certain ideas. That does not mean the original idea proposed is far right. And as to the wack nut job proponents. They already have a big enough platform. But one of the best things (1) that has come out of the fringe element is the challenge to conventional archeology is that if you say that this is how something was done or this is how they performed the work needed to create certain artifacts that the archeologists should prove it by using those methods to recreate the works. And to the finish and level of precision seen in those artifacts. If that's considered far right then the definition of right and left have changed radically. (1) Maybe the only good thing. In a way it's funny. Questioning authority is often seen as a good thing. Except in the field of archeology. And especially Egyptology.
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  6. How many Interglacials did the Neanderthals see in Eurasia? Add in the corresponding number of Glacial Advances that may welll have bulldozed any physical or cultural evidence.
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  7. Pizza? Anything frozen is not Pizza. 🙄
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  8. I'm not sure about fossils but there is circumstantial evidence circa 30k ago. I personally think a lot of evidence is underwater.
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