[SunkenCiv]

The uncalibrated radiocarbon date for the oldest known sample of multirow barley (which is indicative of agriculture) is 14,000 years before present, so these new findings are a little dull and boring. :')

But yeah, the continental shelf has spent much of the last two million years exposed by fallen sealevels, and the interiors spent a similar length of time covered with ice, so most of what we call human prehistory has yet to be examined.

[Dominic Harr]

The uncalibrated radiocarbon date for the oldest known sample of multirow barley (which is indicative of agriculture) is 14,000 years before present, so these new findings are a little dull and boring. :')
But yeah, the continental shelf has spent much of the last two million years exposed by fallen sealevels, and the interiors spent a similar length of time covered with ice, so most of what we call human prehistory has yet to be examined.

Thanks, I was pretty sure I wasn't just imagining that! :-D

It always gives me pause to see how little of that has filtered thru to the 'conventional wisdom'.