Re: non sequitur reference to pretty colours

On Oct 31, 6:44 am, Daryl Krupa <icycal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 29, 8:12 am, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



I believe the illustration is labeled a "schematic", the green color
coding indicating the path 4 is later than 10,000 years ago

The object of the study was to explain and/or predict Path 3,
which was supposedly the path followed by the the earliest
Beringian emigrants to the Americas beyond the ice that had
kept them in Beringia for 15,000 years.
The map was intended to illustrate the study.
The maps shows a Path 3 that was impossible to follow
15,000 years ago, without airborne resupply support flights.
The map also fails to show the ice that determined the timing of the
following of that supposed path.
Those are the worst faults of the map, but there are more.

The map is not labelled as a "schematic",
it is labelled as a map, despite what you might
believe about the "map" that you recommended to us
(_your_ words in quotaton marks).
The time of "path 4" is after the the time of
the subject of the study which the map
(_not_"schematic") was supposed to illustrate, and
it was known to have been used in modern times, so
yes, it was "later than 10,000 years ago" but then
so was the Internet, so what's that got to do with
anything interesting?
Jack, if you're going to recommend something
just because it has pretty colours, then
defend it from criticism of its shoddy construction
with a specious reference to its pretty colours, then
you belong on the Home Shopping Channel,
not in sci.archaeology.

The maps pretty and colourful, but it's also
stupid, twisted, and useless,
just like several youngish tabloid jourmalism subjects
within the last 10,000 years.

Please, resist the glamour of the pretty images.
It will put you into disrepute.

Disappointed by the shortage of intellectual content,
Daryl Krupa

"Map" in the popular
versionhttp://www.archaeologynews.org/story.asp?ID=237190&Title=New%20Ideas%20About%20Human%20Migration%20From%20Asia%20To%20Americas

"Figure 2 Schematic illustration of maternal geneflow in and out of
Beringia." in the scholarly version. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1952074

If you prefer the popular text, so be it, I would have expected the
scholarly text to be of more interest to an archaeological forum. Of
course, if even light exposure to popular versions of a story about
archaeology is damaging to your sensitive eyes I would recommend not
reading any.

A schematic is not a map, it was designed to show their ideas not some
precision measurement of some precise event. What someone else does to
that schematic is worth a comment but not a denunciation of the entire
theory.

The arrows don't seem to be anything more than indications of the
direction the authors seem to believe the DNA flowed.

I hadn't seen the schematic in the original so I went with the Science
Daily nomenclature that it was a map. My error.

.

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