Re: Europe's First Farmers

dhobraasch wrote: news:1151506235.669489.213600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Frrst Frmer in northern Europe ? Waiting for information from the
South?
May be a missleading, fundamental consideration in European
prehistory.

In general the culture in an area substantially depends on given
local economic conditions, especially temperatur and water supply..The
prosperity of Egypt " the gift of the Nile" was rooted in agriculture,
with nomads it is stock-farming and with the Inui the basis is the
hunt and fishing.

This in mind, concerning the economic basis in the neolithic North The
coastal area of the Western Baltic Sea lies on the latitude of
Newfoundland and Kamschatka, despite the warming Golfstream scarcely
an area to develop NEOLITHIC agriculture.

HYP OTHESIS
In the Megalithic Area of Denmark, Sweden and Schleswig-Hostein
(Germany) the northern post-Magdalénian reindeer hunter learned that
it was worth the trouble to protect cattle against bear and wolf and
to feed them during winter.

I.e. the former reindeer hunter no longer hunted the auerochs they
learned to take care and got the feeling to worship the ´life giving
holy cow´ (Horns in the North)

Thus in the North a partnership developed, a SYMBIOSIS between human
and cattle
A partnership based at least on dairy farming.

Strong support comes from biology.The Northerners of to day are
lactose-TOLERANT.
I.e.they can drink fresh milk a life long.!!. (They can digest
milksugar (Lactose),

PROBLEM:
Worldwide ´normal´ grown up mammalians can´t. digest fresh milk.
Most human are
lactose INTOLERANT.They can´t digest milksugar (Lactose) M

90% in Africa, 70% in Italy, 10% in Germany but only 2% in
Denmark-Sweden

A hidden rock in northern prehistoric mainstream, because
lactosetolerance is worldwide typical for milkdrinking, stock-farming
human.
(Northern post-Magdalénian, Libyan, Queen Hatschepsut 1480 BCE,
Berber, Tuareg, Thraker, Sytian, ´Hyperborean. Saudis, Massai)

In generall the mammalian ability to digest milksugar ends at the time
of weaning thus the female can receive a new pregnancy. I.e milksugar
is a function within the mammalian reproduction cycle. A selection
factor within the frame of Darwin´s Theory.

FACIT
The fact that in Europe Northerners can digest fresh fluid milk during
whole life supports the view, that for biological reasons the ancient
culture in the North developed primarily on cattle/diary farming but
scarcely on agriculture.

Necessarily a longer story


I am not sure what you are trying to say in
relation to the matter of the neolithisation
of Europe.

--
p.a.

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