It's no good to travel by land, he says to himself. You get bussick and empty and dusty.

“In the last two or three decades, historians have found it hard to think across large time spans,” he contends; gone are the sweeping narratives of humanity’s advance. The antidote to this “shallow history,” he said, is “deep history,” stretching back 50,000, 500,000, even 2.6 million years to the earliest humans.

At least it is accepted that the traditional view is not fully and universally accepted. There are still rooms for doubt.

and i must be on that list of people that need to get knocked over with a hammer 'cause vicodin and val don't knock me out.