Re: Date limit set on first Americans

In sci.anthropology.paleo,          Eric Stevens created a message ID
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> As you havevquoted above, I have always been careful to distinguish
> between 'peer review' and  "peer review in the modern sense".

Peer review in the past sense is no different than peer review in the 
modern sense, that is to protect science from the activities
like alchemy and the like that tainted science past. Reviewers have the
responsibility of maintaining the quality and standards of the journal
their feild and sceince in general. It serves rougly the same function.
Peer review is far less political now than then, it is easy to find a 
journal that will publish work IF it is fit to be published. There are 
quite a few that will publish unfit work. The difference between darwins
time and now, much fewer venues, much fewer referees, much more arguous 
referee process, refereeing was informal and the discussion was face to 
face. 

As stated you may submit to a journal.

 It may be reviewed by the editor and accepted as it
 It may be refereed by in house editors
 It may be sent out for a referee, for example people who have submitted 
papers to that journal may be used as referees (if they have a manuscript 
in process its a particularly coercive way of getting the referee back 
quickly)
 It may be rejected by the editor or the inhouse editorial staff ( :^) )

If your paper is rejected you can submit it to other venues, usually 
there are half a dozen or so. Many universities have their own in-house 
journal that will publish papers written from within the college. Some 
journals will allow you to publish a scaled down version or lancet 
version of a paper with out much peer review. If you are a PNAS member 
you can publish an article basically unrefereed, england has similar 
versions. Again, those scientist in the feild know the journals they 
trust as reliable and unreliable so it is in the interest of an author to 
revise his work in accord with the highest quality journal he can publish 
into as a sign of the seriousness of his work. At that level politics 
does come into play. 

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