Re: Lapita & continuity in the archaeological record.....

From: Qiwi (marym_at_pl.net)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 30 Aug 2004 19:01:29 -0700

Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message news:<4133E84F.7E53@alphalink.com.au>...
> Qiwi wrote:
>
> > This is absolute crap....
> > and as usual it is P.V.Kirch who is hopelessly confused...
>
> Hopelessly confused, I don't know about that. Hopefully
> publicity-seeking, rather. I just hold him for another
> Carl Sagan. This is what I wrote two and half years ago
> (and which got published):
>
> >Kirch sees a Lapita culture on Aneityum island in Vanuatu,
> >where there is no trace of it whatsoever: "Although no Lapita
> >occupation sites were discovered on Aneityum, a pollen core...
> >exhibits a clear signal of human arrival on the island around
> >900 B.C., believed to reflect a Lapita colonization."
>
> The quote is out of Kirch's book "On the Road of the Winds"
> or something like that.
>
> Admire the logic of it.

LOL....
John Flenley is another one who makes outlandish claims based on
'pollen core' samples...

Relevant Pages
Quantcast