[pct-l] Walking 10,000 miles 12,000 years ago!

[Brett]

 >>"Archaeologists had tended to believe that paleo-Indians would have 
needed millenia to walk from the north end of the Americas to the south." 

Past tense, "had." So what's the current consensus?

Let's face it, modern day long-distance hiking has little in common with 
the migrations of primitive hunter-gatherers. Gore-tex, grocery stores, 
and big predator eradication have made us thru-hikers an alien bipedal 
species, physically of sound constitution but without any survival 
instinct that would dictate our staying put from time to time. Like, 
say, for a generation or two.

- blisterfree



Bighummel at aol.com wrote:
> In the book "1491" (a great read BTW about how the Americas were 
> before the Europeans arrived from the most recent archaeological 
> evidence and theories) they say, "Archaeologists had tended to believe 
> that paleo-Indians would have needed millenia to walk from the north 
> end of the Americas to the south."   
>  
> Ha, ha, haaa!!!! WE all know better, don't we?
>  
> Greg "Strider" Hummel
>  
> "Not forever on earth; only a little while here.
> Be it jade, it shatters.
> Be it gold, it breaks.
> Be it a quetzal feather, it tears apart.
> Not forever on earth, only a little while here."
>  
> "Like a painting, we will be erased.
> Like a flower, we will dry up here on earth.
> Like plumed vestments of the precious bird,
> That precious bird with the agile neck,
> We will come to an end."
>         Nezahualcoyotl (1402-72) 
>
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