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To: SunkenCiv

The dates override settlements that existed IMO. Cave painting happens to this day, word... The Indus valley is far older than this.


4 posted on 01/01/2011 6:05:16 PM PST by allmost
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To: allmost

You may know this, in which case I misunderstood your point, but this site is a LONG way from the Indus valley.


6 posted on 01/01/2011 6:19:20 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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The term “Cave man” is a misnomer.

Mankind has almost always been a house builder, and the marks from their post holes are contemporanous with the famous cave paintings. A gorgeous Anthropologist I was speaking with once pointed out that the first thing a bunch of children off in the woods do is “build a fort”, it is almost instinctive.

The “Cave man” paintings survived because they were in a cave, not because people spent a majority of their time in caves.

So yes, 4,000 years ago there were permanent settlements in that area; but that doesn't preclude them from hanging out occasionally in caves - and painting the walls.

60 posted on 01/04/2011 10:12:09 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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