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history questions: meat, siberian land bridge, horses in the Americas
Robert I. Morphis (MORPHIS@NIUHEP.PHYSICS.NIU.EDU)
10 Dec 1996 17:34:05 GMT
Generally I don't like to expand the number of newsgroups that a post goes
to but as I am unable and unlikely to make any headway in convincing
either of the participants below that they are wrong I thought I would
appeal to more learned folx.
johnel@ix.netcom.com writes:
> On 12/9/96 Tuohy <elmo15@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > Morphis@physics.niu.edu wrote:
> > >Colleen, I challange you to find one reputable source that states that
> > >homo-sapians-sapians ever did not eat meat.
For those coming in late, this does not refer to poor peasantry, but to some
(IM-not-at-all-HO) mythical time before we learned to throw rocks. I have
never heard anything that would indicate that any creature that could be
called Human was strictly vegatarian.
> > My history teacher,the book was called"Man though the Ages",I had it
> > last year,10th grade that is,in world history.
> > Colleen
> Ah, those history books!
> Did you read about the great Sir Francis Drake, or
> about Francis Drake the Pirate?
So far so good...
> And have they decided yet whether or not to
> stop teaching the well-known falsehood that Native Americans came from
> Siberia over the "land bridge" ? And are they still teaching that horses
> were imported to America by the Europeans...?
Again, I have heard nothing that remotely suggests that these two occurances
have been challanged in the academic/research community.
comments please
Robert
Morphis@physics.niu.edu
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