What is absolutely astonishing to me, and probably shouldn't be, is that both North and South American were inhabited before human beings reached the British Isles. I tend to think of England as the repository of ancient history, part of The Old World, whereas the cultures in the Western Hemisphere were more ancient by far.
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Date: 2007-06-04 10:13 pm (UTC)What is absolutely astonishing to me, and probably shouldn't be, is that both North and South American were inhabited before human beings reached the British Isles. I tend to think of England as the repository of ancient history, part of The Old World, whereas the cultures in the Western Hemisphere were more ancient by far.
Fascinating...
;o)