Activity – DanaThomas – The Giza Forum (Legacy)

DanaThomas posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago

Shocking event for the cultural heritage…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/brazils-national-museum-what-could-be-lost-in-the-fire
- Barbara replied 7 years, 7 months ago
  
  This is quite awful. I wonder what kind of “ancient technology ” artifacts this museum was keeping?. Fire would be a perfect cover-up in case of pillage.
  - Dave Truman replied 7 years, 7 months ago
    
    Well, the BBC reported erroneously that the ‘oldest’ human skeleton found in the Americas was an exhibit. There is evidence of a much older human presence in South America, but I suspect that a DNA anyalysis of these remains may have shown affinities with Australian aboriginal haplogroups (see: https://youtu.be/r6IrMjfbh6E). That’s just one very large spanner from this museum that could have been put into the works of the conventional story of human evolution – not least the Out of Africa hypothesis. Another is the recent evidence that, during the last Ice Age, the present-day rainforest in the Amazon Basin was mostly agricultural land. These are just two spanners arising from academic research by paleo-anthropologists and archaeologists. There may well have been plenty of other anomalous artefacts housed in the Museum that were not recognised as such, or that were conveniently stored away from the public’s eyes in its basement.
- justawhoaman replied 7 years, 7 months ago
  
  I think you could start with the knowledge of the “primitive” rain forest people, like the Yanomami. Hopefully, ethnobotanists have stored much of the research “elsewhere”. Like the Australian Originals, I have to believe there could well have been clues that needed to be erased (especially now that our Air Force has admitted to matter/anti-matter). In this digital age, I wonder how much of the information has been stored as data (to protect the knowledge if the actual artifacts are lost.)