The Western Hemisphere. General term for the Americas following their discovery by Europeans, thus setting them in contradistinction to the Old World of Africa, Europe, and Asia.
circumspice wrote:Cocaine is a much later development.
Excavations at Caral have unearthed actual coke, used coke pipes and chemicals for making/refining cocaïne. 4,000 to 4,600 years old. The Phoenicians discovered it and started shipping it and trading in it only a few centuries later. As they did tobacco.
Opium and cannabis came from the east. From Afghanistan and central Asia. Around the same time. Indian and/or Chinese sailors/traders are the suspects to get those 'spices' to Egypt.
Excavations at Caral have unearthed actual coke, used coke pipes and chemicals for making/refining cocaïne.
Are you sure that wasn't the leftovers from the excavators' TGIF party?
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Excavations at Caral have unearthed actual coke, used coke pipes and chemicals for making/refining cocaïne.
Are you sure that wasn't the leftovers from the excavators' TGIF party?
You saw the video! It actually probably was, considering Caral homes were partially dug out. OTOH, their combination of coke, irrigation, cotton growing, fishnet manufacturing and trading for fish, proteins, did magically coincide with a long, peaceful, and affluent stretch in their history!
Odd, isn't it?
I agree with you that it is too bad that ancient coins are found by treasure hunters and amateurs (and housewives and children and chickens) instead of by scholars, but who else is going to find them? If they are authentic, they just are where they are, and found by accident. It is not at all logical to think that a professional archaeologist or anthropologist or numismatist or historian could set out to find one and succeed. Where in God's millions of square miles would he pick to hunt? And if by chance he did find one, then who would say he did not plant it?
It goes on to list quite a number of similar discoveries.