Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-188432-20130310185635/@comment-188432-20130311180900

No, see, that's the rub. The group in AUC never call themselves the Tribe of Gum. So the fact that the Hunters group call themselves the "Tribe of Gum" throws up all kinds of red flags.

Every serious student of early DW history knows that the Tribe of Gum is only a working title and has nothing to do with any bit of the narrative. Had I discovered our article earlier, or when I had more time to correct it, it would have simply been changed, rather than flagged with, because it is absolutely wrong, given the evidence from AUC.

It is very suspicious that we have a narrative, 50 years after the fact, using a discarded working title. I would almost be willing to bet money that things are not what they seem. Remember that this story in DWM is not taking place on Earth. At this point, it could just as easily be that these people on this planet have a telescope trained on Earth and the images from 100,000 BC are just reaching them. They could have knowledge of Barbara and Ian because they've seen them from a distance. They could be robots. They could me victims of mind transference. They could be the Tribe of Gum because there's a character named Gum who will be introduced in later instalments who is unique to this story, and does not appear in AUC. There are tons of possibilities.

We just have to wait to see what happens.