Elizabeth Weiss
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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And it needs to be fairly robust bone in animals that use their tongue a lot for speech.
And so the Neanderthal hyoid is pretty much the same morphology, the same shape and so forth as ours.
So that's another example that suggests that they probably had speech too.
So now written language comes very late and doesn't come to the Americas.
I will take that back.
It doesn't come to North America really until after contact.
But speech definitely dates back, you know, quite a long time.
Yeah, yeah, I'm drawing a blank.
So yeah, the Spanish, so...
Central and South America was far more advanced than North America in their archaeology, what is now archaeology, in their tools, their writing, and so forth.
I think that that's what we've learned.
But it's interesting...
When you get contact in the Americas, both in South America and North America, there were a whole bunch of activities that started being banned.
And this is oftentimes kind of portrayed as a negative thing.
And obviously the destruction of artifacts, of artwork, of archaeological materials, of...
architecture is terrible.
But some of the other things that were stopped is actually a good thing that they were stopped.
For example, way up in Canada, you had the indigenous people, even at contact, they were still engaging in potlatches where the different chiefs would try to outdo each other to show their wealth.
And the Europeans, when they made contact with them as missionaries, they outlawed the potlatches.
And people are now like, oh, that's terrible.
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