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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1157775" data-attributes="member: 2205">Of course we know quite a bit about history.  There's plenty we don't know, though, and sometimes what we don't know means what we think we understand is completely wrong.  Take a look at the Spirit Cave Mummy and Kennewick Man, for example.  Almost completely negates the Clovis first traditional view of the original peopleing of the American continents.But this is a misleading statement in and of itself.  We know quite a bit about history, but what's truly interesting about history is what we can deduce from what we know.  Because what we can deduce is naturally only based on the information we have at hand, we could potentially uncover some missing piece of the puzzle that completely changes our view of history.Then again, the same thing can be said about any other field of inquiry.  Look at what the germ theory did for medicine for example, or what Newton did for physics, or what John Ostrom and Robert Bakker did for dinosaurs.That doesn't invalidate anything we know about any of those fields, it just means that we now know more, and that changes our interpretation of what it means.</blockquote>