[SunkenCiv]

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Two things -- one, I think I should be thanking someone for sending the link in FReepmail, and two, was there a recent topic about this? To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[exDemMom]

Interesting. I suppose farming was a prerequisite to writing.

Human teeth have been decreasing in size over the past 10,000 years. That is probably a result of farming, as well.

[muawiyah]

Seems like the idea advanced about the origins of culture and civilization in Ancient Japan ~ to wit; Temperate zone forests were able to provide sufficient nuts, berries, grains and other edible plants to fully supplement a hunter's diet ~ leaving sufficient spare time to create elaborate villages and graveyards (etc.).

In short, they didn't need agriculture to move into the Neolithic.

Glad the guys working in the field are beginning to think that approach over and apply it elsewhere.

Let me take this opportunity to point out that professional archaeologists may have been making a mistake in failing to recognize tree domestication as having preceded herding and other forms of agriculture. For example, the Sa'ami are believed to have been domesticating birch trees ~ this gave them a faster growing, healthier birch, with lots of trunk to create planks from. The planks gave them ski's, snowshoes, baskets/claypots, and seagoing boats! (I mentioned that the other night). There are other examples.