Raul Bilecky

But the cotton was coming from further inland.

It wasn't coming from them.

So even back then, they were...

So here's the kicker.

And this is part of the paper I'm thinking of writing.

There's evidence at that place, Guacaprieta, of a sunken circular plaza.

And that predates all the ones we saw by 2,000 more years.

I think this is where that tradition started.

Wow.

I think that's where it started far earlier than anybody accepts or knows.

Now, here's the weird one.

How did those people get there?

Dude, you know, I've thought about this.

I mean, look, if you're building these structures 6,000 years ago, 11,000 years ago, 15,000 years ago, when did you get there?

When did you get there?

And, yeah, there's the plaza.

So, I mean, I don't think it takes much.

I think if you're living on the coast or, I don't know, by any sort of water and you see a piece of wood floating on it, you're like, oh, all right.

Well, then a thousand years go by and you have at that point put some pieces of wood together to make a flotation device.

You're able to navigate.