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To: bruinbirdman
Thanks for posting.

re: Elites in the culture.

Why is it that these 'researchers' try and apply todays culture on ancients?

Is it all possible it was just a fisherman lucky enough to find a gold nugget and took the time to work it up into a wear-pretty?

10 posted on 04/01/2008 4:04:42 AM PDT by ASOC (I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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To: ASOC
"This undermines the idea that only sedentary societies could create more material wealth than they could consume."

"Why is it that these 'researchers' try and apply todays culture on ancients?"

This puts the Marxist dialectic into historic perspective, don'tcha know.

It is the historic nature of man.

"Well, we will just have to change human nature." -- Hillary Clinton

yitbos

16 posted on 04/01/2008 1:35:36 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
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