The diffusionists have landed
By: by Marc. K. Stengel
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly Group
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Indians; Origin; Paleo-Indians; Ethnology; Antiquities
Other titles: Atlantic monthly (1993)
Notes: "Volume 285, No. 1, January 2000"--Table of contents page.

"...the diffusionists have a habit of raising awkward questions -- questions that even some mainstream scholars find hard to ignore, much less to explain away. Who carved Phoenician-era Iberian script into a stone found at Grave Creek, West Virginia? How did a large stone block incised with medieval Norse runes make its way to Kensington, Minnesota? Why would a rough version of the Ten Commandments appear in Old Hebrew script on a boulder-sized tablet near Los Lunas, New Mexico? Conversely, how could the sweet potato, known to be indigenous to the Americas, have become a food staple throughout Polynesia and the Pacific basin as early as A.D. 400? And why would dozens of eleventh- to thirteenth-century temple sculptures in Karnataka, India, include depictions of what appears to be American maize?"--www.freerepublic.com (viewed September 9, 2016).