MDMD: Diffusionism

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Check out the January 2000 Atlantic Monthly's 'The Diffusionists Have
Landed' by Marc Stengel.

"Institute for the Study of American Cultures members are accustomed to the
professional and popular disregard that greets their unorthodox inquiries
into the pre-Columbian history of the Western hemisphere--inquiries,
generally known as diffusionist studies, that suppose intentional contact
with the Americas by civilizations across both the Pacific and Atlantic,
beginning sometime in the late Stone Age (7000-3000BC)."