Scientific discoveries - Real or total guesswork ? ...

[dogtag]

More and more I'm beginning to doubt what the Pointy Heads
claim. They come up with conclusions about peoples scores
of thousands of years ago with virtually no evidence whatever,
then build up fanciful scenarios about their everyday life. It just
sounds far fetched to me, more like grand standing for the
benefit of their peers and fame for the subject paper they write.
This thing about the Mayans - using stone tools just a thousand
years back ? - the Iron Age was going strong 1000 years BC for
chrissake, didn't the Mayans read the newspapers ? Didn't anyone
tell them about iron, or are these archaeologists merely dreaming
up a story that sounds good but is actually nonsense ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...years-ago.html

[leftyo]

scientists like to make wildazzed claims about stuff, in order to continue getting funding from their gvmnts.

[togor]

Yeah this science thing, DT....when is it ever going to discover something useful or interesting?

[leftyo]

Yeah this science thing, DT....when is it ever going to discover something useful or interesting?

tomorrow, always tomorrow.

[togor]

Typing this on my mobile phone. Thinking maybe one or two scientific discoveries went into that.

Some say that most of the easy discoveries have already been made.

[Vern Humphrey]

The Mayans were a true stone age people -- so were the Egyptians when they built the pyramids.

By and large, metallurgy in Meso America was confined to gold and silver. Bronze was just starting to emerge in the 1400s, well past the classic Maya period.

[dryheat]

-researchers suggest-
That's not concrete. A lot of anthropology is guesswork and hypothesis. Scratches on a piece of stone to me doesn't hold a lot of water, but these guys work with this stuff all the time. It's kind of like forensics. It's detective work. I'm a little in awe of it. If I had been smart enough I might have gone into it.