Dan Flores

sites with is going to be something like these big leaps forward we had with radiocarbon dating, which was a huge game changer 75 years ago, and now the genomic revolution, the genetic revolution, which is another enormous game changer for all kinds of things, including these sort of extinctions from the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary. So I think it's going to be something like that.

I don't know exactly what it is, but it's probably going to be something that suddenly enables us to interpret what we have in a way we've not been able to.

I don't know exactly what it is, but it's probably going to be something that suddenly enables us to interpret what we have in a way we've not been able to.

I don't know exactly what it is, but it's probably going to be something that suddenly enables us to interpret what we have in a way we've not been able to.

Well, I would say, you know, I mean, I, I may look as if I come from the early 20th century, but I'm actually more a mid-20th century artifact. And so I was born at about the time that radiocarbon dating won the Nobel Prize for a guy. And I have not, I will say that

Well, I would say, you know, I mean, I, I may look as if I come from the early 20th century, but I'm actually more a mid-20th century artifact. And so I was born at about the time that radiocarbon dating won the Nobel Prize for a guy. And I have not, I will say that

Well, I would say, you know, I mean, I, I may look as if I come from the early 20th century, but I'm actually more a mid-20th century artifact. And so I was born at about the time that radiocarbon dating won the Nobel Prize for a guy. And I have not, I will say that

During the 60s and especially the 70s, the late 70s when I was in graduate school, there was a strong disinclination to believe that humans had played much of a role at all. And what it reminded, as I've looked back on it, Now, it reminds me of the sort of reluctance that a lot of people feel about climate change. It's that humans couldn't have done that. We couldn't have done that.

During the 60s and especially the 70s, the late 70s when I was in graduate school, there was a strong disinclination to believe that humans had played much of a role at all. And what it reminded, as I've looked back on it, Now, it reminds me of the sort of reluctance that a lot of people feel about climate change. It's that humans couldn't have done that. We couldn't have done that.

During the 60s and especially the 70s, the late 70s when I was in graduate school, there was a strong disinclination to believe that humans had played much of a role at all. And what it reminded, as I've looked back on it, Now, it reminds me of the sort of reluctance that a lot of people feel about climate change. It's that humans couldn't have done that. We couldn't have done that.

I mean, a bunch of animals became extinct. That had to have been climate. That had to have been a comet strike. That had to have been something other than humans because... I mean, there's just no way. That's not possible. People armed only with adattles and spears and so forth could not do those sorts of things.

I mean, a bunch of animals became extinct. That had to have been climate. That had to have been a comet strike. That had to have been something other than humans because... I mean, there's just no way. That's not possible. People armed only with adattles and spears and so forth could not do those sorts of things.

I mean, a bunch of animals became extinct. That had to have been climate. That had to have been a comet strike. That had to have been something other than humans because... I mean, there's just no way. That's not possible. People armed only with adattles and spears and so forth could not do those sorts of things.

And that, of course, played into and went along with this sensibility back in those same years where... we were kind of, in a way, first discovering native ecology and indigenous knowledge about the world. And we were, of course, looking for some examples, looking desperately for some examples of human beings to say, These people did it right. Here's the way you do it.

And that, of course, played into and went along with this sensibility back in those same years where... we were kind of, in a way, first discovering native ecology and indigenous knowledge about the world. And we were, of course, looking for some examples, looking desperately for some examples of human beings to say, These people did it right. Here's the way you do it.

And that, of course, played into and went along with this sensibility back in those same years where... we were kind of, in a way, first discovering native ecology and indigenous knowledge about the world. And we were, of course, looking for some examples, looking desperately for some examples of human beings to say, These people did it right. Here's the way you do it.

We're not on the right track. We're doing it wrong, but they did it correctly. And, of course, arguing that early arrivals in North America, like Clovis and Folsom people, may have wiped out species that ran against that sentiment that, well, we're trying to find in the past some humans who really lived well on the environment. And so...

We're not on the right track. We're doing it wrong, but they did it correctly. And, of course, arguing that early arrivals in North America, like Clovis and Folsom people, may have wiped out species that ran against that sentiment that, well, we're trying to find in the past some humans who really lived well on the environment. And so...

We're not on the right track. We're doing it wrong, but they did it correctly. And, of course, arguing that early arrivals in North America, like Clovis and Folsom people, may have wiped out species that ran against that sentiment that, well, we're trying to find in the past some humans who really lived well on the environment. And so...

That changed, I think, sometime, I don't know, probably in the early 2000s, when after one kind of alternative explanation after another was advanced, and none of them really seemed to work. They never did manage to convince many people. I mean, you know, Ross McPhee of the American Museum of Natural History advanced, well, maybe some new disease swept through North America and killed everything.