Posted on 05/06/2018 7:42:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
If fire was being used 900,000 years ago why did it take until 10,000 years ago or so to start cities and cultivation and the like?
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Look at modern day Democrats and extrapolate.
Ok thanks. But why wouldn’t folks have settled down just for the “sociality” of it? Sure you got enough food to eat and life is pretty good.... Why not stay in one place (river delta, lush valley, etc) and make “friends”?
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I refer one and all to the late, but still great, Arthur C. Clarke and his Three Laws, in particular for this case, Law #1: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Note please that I am NOT criticizing or disparaging these researchers or this article, just pointing out the habits of the media and others in assigning laudatory adjectives that the researchers would probably disclaim. Any mention of 'settled science' or other such wordage / concept should be at the reader's discretion!
Agriculture
Most of the time that Neandertal is known to have been around (apart from all of us who carry our Neandertal ancestry in our DNA) the continental shelf was exposed due to glaciation and lower sealevel. That's where they had their settlements.
Modern-day Homo sapiens sapiens are not limited to people in the US. People in other countries are also Homo sapiens sapiens.
Well, most of them anyway. Some are Homo sapiens insipiens.
The only time the term "settled science" is used is by people who reject science (which is a method, not a body of knowledge) -- and around here, that doesn't mean some leftist dingbat.
droll.... very droll...
Because they did make friends in their bands. Think of it as an extended scout troop
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