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To: Texas Eagle
The Stone Age was only 9,000 years ago?

Less than that. Copper working started about 8,000 years ago, but copper smelting, that extracting the metal from the ore, only about 5,000 years ago. Agriculture only started about 8,000 years ago as well, probably in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq.

36 posted on 12/30/2005 6:21:50 PM PST by El Gato
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To: El Gato
"Agriculture only started about 8,000 years ago as well, probably in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq."

Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years

"Humans made their first tentative steps towards farming 23,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Stone Age people in Israel collected the seeds of wild grasses some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognised, experts say."

43 posted on 12/30/2005 6:56:41 PM PST by blam
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