Re: Not Enough Data

Paul Crowley wrote:
"Gerrit Hanenburg" <G.Hanenburg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

There was a certain event at 12 kya which
had a drastic effect on the record.

No. Too simple, Paul. You can't blame the absence of evidence of
large settlement prior to 10 kya on changes in sea level (and/or
glaciers). Even with these factors we'd expect to find at least some
direct fossil evidence of large-scale settlements if they were common.


I don't think large-scale settlements (i.e. mesopotamia) existed
before, let's say, 10 kya. I do not think agriculture appeared 10 kya.
There is no reason to not assume that hominids didn't have other forms
of agriculture. It's not accurate to label the emergence of
large-scale settlements as the result of (or evidence of) an
agricultural revolution.

Ignorance of that event, and of the immensity
of its implications, is another major element in
the 'thinking' on which the whole of current
PA rests, and which form the basis for your
assumption above.

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