Transocean Culture Diffusionists

Some of the independent inventionists give away the tenuousness of their position when they snidely dismiss the diffusionists without even considering their evidence. One inventionist, Dean Snow, writes that "It is probably true . . . that the problem will go away if simply ignored" (2). This is hardly a scholarly approach to an important historical issue, especially when it is acknowledged by many scholars that "rare visits" did occur to the New World from other regions. These scholars go on to argue that such visits probably did not have much of an impact on changing the way of life of the Amerindians, however (2).

Clearly, there is a major difficulty in this historical area of concern, for each "side" in the debate---diffusionists and inventionists---interprets the same evidence differently. For example,

during the 1950s the diffusionist anthropologist Robert Heine-Geldern suggested that the art motif based upon the intricate use of the water lily and serpent in Amaravati Hindu culture was similar to the water lily and serpent motif

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