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Jake,
I don't think anyone's said it CAN'T be true, but there's a disturbing trend
in the popular archeology magazines of publishing "hot" stories without any
disclaimers and without any peer review. Witness the Fiedel brouhaha over
Monte Verde recently. In this particular case, I think dragging Betty
Meggers in as an "authenticator" of transoceanic potential is a bit of a
stretch even with the Jomon-Ecuador connection she has been trying to make
for years.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Ivey [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Romans in Mexico
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> So all of you are agreed that it's absolutely impossible for a Roman
> ship to have made it to the New World?
>
> You guys sound like the anti-Viking position back before the
> discovery
> of the Newfoundland site.
>
> Certainly the pop. press will hype this stuff. Certainly the reports
> we've seen are not what we'd consider good evidence to support the
> claims in the press. But sometimes it's true anyway. Maybe not this
> time (who knows?) but to take the position that it CAN'T be true is
> poor science.
>
> Jake.
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