Be thankful it wasn’t the organ bank thing.
So there’s some evidence that we may have to revise our theories on when North America was first settled again:
At the height of the last ice age, [Smithsonian Institute anthropologist Dennis] Stanford says, mysterious Stone Age European people known as the Solutreans paddled along an ice cap jutting into the North Atlantic. They lived like Inuits, harvesting seals and seabirds.
The Solutreans eventually spread across North America, Stanford says, hauling their distinctive blades with them and giving birth to the later Clovis culture, which emerged some 13,000 years ago.
Glenn Reynolds semi-reasonably asks in response, “So what happened to them?” I say ‘semi-reasonably’ because I know that Glenn has read a Larry Niven book or two in his time: clearly, what happened was the magic went away. Continue reading Life imitating Larry Niven again?