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Earliest humans stayed at the Americas 'oldest hotel' in Mexican cave:
A cave in a remote part of Mexico was visited by humans around 30,000 years ago—15,000 years earlier than people were previously thought to have reached the Americas.
Painstaking excavations of Chiquihuite Cave, located in a mountainous area in northern Mexico controlled by drugs cartels, uncovered nearly 2000 stone tools from a small section of the high-altitude cave.
Archaeological analysis of the tools and DNA analysis of the sediment in the cave uncovered a new story of the colonisation of the Americas which now traces evidence of the first Americans back to 25,000-30,000 years ago.
[...] "For decades people have passionately debated when the first humans entered the Americas. Chiquihuite Cave will create a lot more debate as it is the first site that dates the arrival of people to the continent to around 30,000 years ago—15,000 years earlier than previously thought. These early visitors didn't occupy the cave continuously, we think people spent part of the year there using it as a winter or summer shelter, or as a base to hunt during migration. This could be the Americas oldest ever hotel."
The find provides more evidence to challenge the accepted theory that the Clovis people were the earliest in the Americas 15,000 years ago.
Journal Reference:
Ciprian F. Ardelean, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, et al. Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum [$], Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @06:20AM (2 children)
Unless, they are Runaway1956. Seriously, it is time that SoylentNews made it clear that this clown is not welcome? Of course, in the interest of Freezed Peaches and whatnot, we should not censor him. But just to point out, every so often, which is actually all the time, that he is incorrect, ignorant, racist, and embolic! Points to him being a Kremlin shill, because if I were the Kremlin, or China, I would be recruiting in the lowest paid parts of America, for those willing to sell out their country for a pittance. Like Arkansas. Really, Runaway? $600, a year? But as Edward Longshanks said, many settled for much less, much less.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @07:39AM (1 child)
If you genuinely interested in this topic a KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov [wikipedia.org] spoke freely and openly about what his role was in the KGB: ideological subversion. The interview is extremely insightful and available here [youtube.com].
In particular the KGB did not focus on recruiting adults, because the motivation was overt and in any case adults tend to be generally more resistant to ideological subversion. Instead, they look to the youth whose world views are still much more fluid. This is why he emphasized that ideological subversion tends to take so long - in general around 10-15 years. That is the time it takes to indoctrinate a new generation. And so this new generation is brought up to believe that their current system is evil and instead that the solution is the system of the enemy. The subverted, generally being young and relying on subverted education over life experience, will never accept any version of reality other than that which they have been taught. Everything else, they are taught, is simply deception or somehow flawed. The example he gives is you could take somebody to the Soviet Union, show them the concentration camps and they would simply shrug 'That is not real communism!'
Interestingly enough he suggests that once the phase of ideological subversion is complete, the process of a revolution can be achieved in less than a year. But beyond this he also emphasizes that many of these very people would be the ones marked for 'removal' from society due to "the psychological shock when they will see in the future what the beautiful society of equality and social justice means *in practice*". The same people to have fought for such a society will be the exact ones aiming to revolt against the system they created. Except unlike in the free society they sought to overturn where expressing oneself is a right, dissenters in such a beautiful society will simply be disappeared.
That interview was recorded more than 30 years ago. Do you not find it even slightly interesting that, if not for the quality and attire, one might assume he was a reactionary giving a post-facto analysis of the troubles of America today?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @07:44AM
Given the low emotional maturity of most Americans (and low intellectual maturity of enough of them), I'm not in the least surprised the russian "influence" worked last election.