Comments on: Gavin Menzies rewriting Polynesian origins, neat! http://evolutionaryanthropology.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/gavin-menzies-rewriting-polynesian-origins-neat/ It does. Honestly. Here, read my thesis... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:34:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Peter Marsh http://evolutionaryanthropology.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/gavin-menzies-rewriting-polynesian-origins-neat/#comment-33 Peter Marsh Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:47:44 +0000 https://evolutionaryanthropology.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/gavin-menzies-rewriting-polynesian-origins-neat/#comment-33 Yes, Gavin Menzies work has been very poorly researched. I would place him in the same basket as Robert Langdon, a man also unable to accept that extensive ocean voyages were being conducted thousands of years ago. We can add a few other people to this basket. Paul Bahn for suggesting that skulls in Easter Island tullpas were put there to make chickens lay bigger eggs. Also the scientist who suggested that Rongo Rongo script was merely natives mimicking spanish writing. Then there is the scientist who suggested the Spanish were responsible for transporting Kumera into the Pacific and the latest paper of poorly researched garbage is the scientist who is now saying that there no obsidian traders in the Pacific but obsidian artifacts were merely made from small chips of obsidian inclusions in pumice stone that brought obsidian upcurrent to the far flung islands of the Pacific. The size of some obsidian artifacts that had been struck off a 'core' would have to have come from a piece of pumice at least a meter in diameter. For a more up to date and enlightening view on pacific prehistory see my website www.polynesian-prehistory.com Peter marsh Yes, Gavin Menzies work has been very poorly researched.
I would place him in the same basket as Robert Langdon, a man also unable to accept that extensive ocean voyages were being conducted thousands of years ago.
We can add a few other people to this basket. Paul Bahn for suggesting that skulls in Easter Island tullpas were put there to make chickens lay bigger eggs. Also the scientist who suggested that Rongo Rongo script was merely natives mimicking spanish writing. Then there is the scientist who suggested the Spanish were responsible for transporting Kumera into the Pacific and the latest paper of poorly researched garbage is the scientist who is now saying that there no obsidian traders in the Pacific but obsidian artifacts were merely made from small chips of obsidian inclusions in pumice stone that brought obsidian upcurrent to the far flung islands of the Pacific. The size of some obsidian artifacts that had been struck off a ‘core’ would have to have come from a piece of pumice at least a meter in diameter. For a more up to date and enlightening view on pacific prehistory see my website
http://www.polynesian-prehistory.com
Peter marsh

]]> By: J9 http://evolutionaryanthropology.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/gavin-menzies-rewriting-polynesian-origins-neat/#comment-27 J9 Tue, 16 May 2006 17:45:29 +0000 https://evolutionaryanthropology.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/gavin-menzies-rewriting-polynesian-origins-neat/#comment-27 Because, as we all know, people continue on in academia for THE MONEY. I mean, aren't you just ROLLING in dough? I'd say someone writing a book that appeals to the sensibilities of people with nothing better to do that feel smart because they don't actually want to work for it has a better chance of making a ton of cash than most anthropologists. Like, what? > I always think this, like, I should read that so I know what I'm protesting, but sometimes it actually pollutes your brain. Although it would be fun to get drunk and do a dramatic reading, in an old-english-man voice and everything. *smacks your startling pie chart* shake it like a polaroid picture, woman! Because, as we all know, people continue on in academia for THE MONEY. I mean, aren’t you just ROLLING in dough? I’d say someone writing a book that appeals to the sensibilities of people with nothing better to do that feel smart because they don’t actually want to work for it has a better chance of making a ton of cash than most anthropologists. Like, what?

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I always think this, like, I should read that so I know what I’m protesting, but sometimes it actually pollutes your brain. Although it would be fun to get drunk and do a dramatic reading, in an old-english-man voice and everything.

*smacks your startling pie chart* shake it like a polaroid picture, woman!

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