MADE IN CHINA | 2006-01-02
When I was little, we learned in school that dinosaurs were huge, slow, stupid creatures. I heard that one of them had two brains, both golfball size, one in the head and one in the back.
We also learned that Vikings landing in America was a myth.
We have since learned that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and fast. We have found feathes on some of them, and there is no way of knowing hte ones we don't find hair or feathers on DIDN'T have either. It is a classic case of proving a negative.
It is very convenient that it now turns out that mankind origniated in Africa, just in time for Political Correctness. I watch out for coinkidinks like that.
But China has a population of 1.2 billion in an area smaller than the United States. They are also the PERFECT kind of people for the detail work of digging and finding.
If that weren't enough, China has another advantage countries where things "originated" ALWAYS have. Nothing ever "originates" in territory that is presetnly in use. Everything "orginiated" inthe Middle East because 1) That's where bibilical scholars and almost all ancient historical research were anyway and 2) the bleached bones of dead vivilizations in the Middle East are out in the open.
If the pyramids had been in Europe, they would have had all the stone stolen for building by now.
So, since the ancient researchers were already in Palestine and the bleached bones were right there, it was a happy accident that everything began inthe Middle East, just east and west of Palestine. It would have been north and south of htere, too, if it hadn't been under water.
I notice little coinkidinks like that. Several centuries of scholars never even mentioned it.
But, as I KEEP pointing out, most of China was never conquered by CHINA. China at its most powerful stayed within shouting distance of its two great rivers. Once they got aquatic rice from India, the uplands were abandoned.
China has always been like hte United States if it had not moved beyond the Mississippi. So most of China is the perfect place for everything to have begun. It's empty now, and things only began where things are now empty.
The caucasian mummies were one of the earlier discoveries in our generation. But up in Mongolia most of hte line of whal descent, since they were walking on land, was found.
Now some more dinosaur-date history is being found.
In order to tell you about it, I will have to recap what we thought we knew about dinosaurs. They were the last great extinction, so it is of some importance to many people to know why those earlier extinctions occuddred, since we are about due for another.
I will start a new peice for this.