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[–] ProbablyKaffe@lemmygrad.ml 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Once again I have a Chunka Luta book recommendation: Indigenous Paleolithic by Paulette Steeves

Archeology as a discipline in the West functions as a Colonial tool to deny the history of Indigenous peoples. The biggest example is the "Clovis First Theory" (debunked) that posits all Indigenous peoples of the Americas descend from migrations across the Bering Strait during the last glacial maxim. Archeologists who made their careers on this study have bullied and physically harmed opponents to their hypothesis. US settlers over and over have destroyed archeological sites intentionally (and many unintentional as well) and this has been used to deny how long people have been living in the western continents. (Another example is the "genetic testing" and other racism that posits European settlers are "more indigenous" than Arabic-speaking Palestinians).

This is once again, a projection onto China what the Whites have been doing all over the world.