re: #236 marjoriemoon

Even “First Nations” doesn’t really do justice to what happened.

I notice that the latest BBC documentary is a history of “civilization”. It is still stuck on the “big man” view of history (and has a very dominant Greek view.)

Problem is, for Eurasia, Micronesia/Australia, and Africa “humans” of one type or another have been roaming around for a million years.

There were interchanges of culture between the levant and western Europe millennia before the Phoenicians built their sailing empire and spread the alphabet.

Humans spreading in the New World likely happened in multiple, separate, waves over a couple of thousand years. And, groups were replacing each other.

A much more holistic view of “humanity” is needed, I propose.