Re: Not Enough Data

<claudiusdenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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).

You have never grasped the 'coastal' nature
of the hominid habitat. Small-scale cultivation
leaves little trace at the best of times. It takes
time and investment, and crops will only be
planted where they have a good chance of
success -- where they can most easily be
protected by the planters, less likely to be
raided by animals, or by other hominids,
where they are sheltered from extremes of
weather, and have fertile soil. That will,
nearly always, be at lower altitudes.

Even with these factors we'd expect to find at least some
direct fossil evidence of large-scale settlements if they were common.

Settlements above 300 feet would have
been uncommon.

I don't think large-scale settlements (i.e. mesopotamia) existed
before, let's say, 10 kya.

Of course, they did. You are as bad as the
standard PA types, relying on some strange
worldwide 'fairy dust' at around 12 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.

I doubt if there was any major revolution
-- more a steady evolution over hundreds
of millenia.


Paul.


.

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