Re: Not Enough Data

"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Indeed, there is hard evidence that hominids manufactured stone tools
as early as 2.5 mya and that is quite compatible with some plant
cultivation, the default for a sedentary people. No Homo erectus
residential sites have been identified, but that is no reason to assume
their absence.

Innocent until proven guilty. Basically that's also how it works in
science. The negative state has priority until positive evidence
shifts the balance to the other side.

The question is which is the 'negative state'.
The basis of your thinking is your assumption
that all hominids before about 12 kya were non-
sedentary. That notion is ancient and pre-dates
both the concept of niche and the realisation
that most mammals and all (or nearly all) primates
are territorial. It also pre-dates the realisation
that almost every human society (or culture) is
both sedentary and fiercely territorial.

Such an assumption therefore has no place
whatever in any modern science.

Name the archeological sites that indicate permanent settlement
(sedentism) prior to circa 12 kya.

Gerrit
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