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Sean Faircloth:
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Stone tools will survive without the need of special circumstances. Fossilization requires extremely specific occurances to take place. I can't imagine that fossilzation happens to the average corpse at rates higher than ten-thousandths of a percent... Otherwise we would be neck deep in fossils?
I've never subscribed to the whole "you took our land" pathos. The randomized and millenias-long process of human migration coupled with the inevitable human propensity for battle over resources and territory pretty much guarantees that the most recent occupants stole the land from a previous group who in turn stole it from an even earlier group, who in turn stole it from...
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