So if no land belongs to anyone, the only people who’s opinion should count are the people actually fucking living there, no? Who want, pretty much universally, to remain under uk rule. Who owns the bit of rock is far less important than the thoughts of the population that live there. And they think “fuck off argentina”

We're talking about the Falkland islands, Argentina wasn't colonised by the British.

This doesn't show the Falkland islands were populated?

You have to be one of the dumbest people I've ever interacted with on this platform, and that's genuinely saying something.

You're completely unable to make a coherent case for your beliefs, and all your arguments basically amount to "it just is"

Good luck with life, I guess.

OK so now YOU'RE equating humans to literally just birds and plants

No garrison.

Buenos Aires attempted to gain influence over the settlement by installing a garrison in October 1832, which mutinied within a month

The British suck but not literally everything they do is an invasion. And there were other Europeans there when they first arrived, not Argentinians.

Both Spain and France and UK each have stronger claims than Argentina.

No, it was about the Argentinian claim being the anti-colonialism one somehow, and this was supposed to be some kind of justification for that claim.

That 2021 Hamley paper is total guesswork, and the scientific community essentially laughed it out of the room...

Actual archaeologists and ecologists heavily criticised the study because it lacks the absolute bare minimum required to prove human settlement:

Zero Human Remains or Structures: In the cold, acidic peat bogs of the Falklands—which perfectly preserve organic material—they found zero human bones, zero teeth, no post holes, no tents and fuck all else.

The Fox Myth: The authors claimed the extinct fox (the warrah) had a marine diet because humans fed it. Peer researchers immediately pointed out that 19th-century museum specimens of the fox (when humans were actively trying to wipe them out) show the exact same diet. The fox was just scavenging naturally. Which makes sense as there were penguins everywhere and it was stealing from them

Natural Explanations: The bone piles have zero stone-tool butchery marks and were likely piled up by natural wind and wave erosion. The charcoal spikes were just natural brush fires during droughts. Nah must have been Argentinans doing it... Yep

If you want to see how badly peer researchers dismantled this paper, you can read the formal scientific rebuttals here:

Science Advances (Official Rebuttal): Comment on “Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands” by researchers T.J. Clark, J. Newton, and E.D. Wakefield.  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0928

There is even a reply on the same webpage that calls this article out on its assumptions, did you even read the article you provided?

It’s an incredibly weak paper trying to turn a few pieces of circumstantial ecological data into a political origin story. There is zero proof of a pre-European human footprint.

Nice try tho - Even if it was true, they clearly left well before the Europeans arrived so who fucking cares.

Copied text from your article, and the link I have submitted here

Edit: Well that shut them up.