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The Stone Age was only 9,000 years ago?


5 posted on 12/30/2005 5:05:10 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Texas Eagle
It is still on in the Congo.
26 posted on 12/30/2005 5:33:49 PM PST by Ninian Dryhope ("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
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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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