Global Connections of the Ancient Americans

These discussions were about the cowries as used by ancient Americans, and by other peoples around the world. This subject is extremely obscure. I've found this information in some pretty old and out of the way books.

• This was my first post on the subject. Nobody has heard much about any of this until I brought this subject up for discussion.
• Here I discuss this subject with Bernard.
• The discussion with Bernard heats up. He was rather negative about all this evidence. I'm pointing out what the mainstream scholars have been missing for great many years.
• I further discuss this subject with Tom Kavanagh.
• This is the article that provides some in-depth info about these very interesting cowry shells. Based on the rather rare 1917 book by J. Wilfrid Jackson.
• A follow up on the discussion with Tom.
• A discussion with Hu on this subject.
• Tom was back to the discussion after a break. He did plenty of follow up, and looked up some obscure old sources on this subject.
• Five days later, I've sent this further reply to Tom. He found some problems with Jackson's research, but could not undermine Jackson's larger thesis.
• This is the conclusion of this discussion with Tom. After this post, he bowed out of this conversation. Oh, well, I suppose his contribution was a little too negative to start with -- but without harsh critics, how do we know our thesis holds up?

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