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1 posted on 02/26/2015 6:45:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

gnip


2 posted on 02/26/2015 6:45:19 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


3 posted on 02/26/2015 6:45:29 PM PST by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushes)
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To: BenLurkin
So, the global economy was just humming along, trade shipments from central Europe were arriving at a steady pace. Life was pretty good.

Then -- WHAM! -- the Brits figured out agriculture!
That's when things really escalated quickly.

4 posted on 02/26/2015 6:48:06 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: BenLurkin

Howzabout maybe they needed some of that good global warming before growing wheat could really take off?

HF


5 posted on 02/26/2015 6:48:24 PM PST by holden
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To: BenLurkin

How would they know what was grown in Britain thousands of years ago? I do not think they have a TARDIS.


7 posted on 02/26/2015 7:54:31 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: BenLurkin

They grew wheat back then and used Stonehenge to grind the wheat into flour.


8 posted on 02/26/2015 8:45:14 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: BenLurkin

In my totally uneddymakated SWAG opinion some ancient folks tried eating wild cereal plants that had been scorched in a range fire and thought “Hey, this stuff’s not bad!”


10 posted on 02/26/2015 9:45:53 PM PST by Rockpile
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To: BenLurkin

1,500’to 2,500 years for agriculture to diffuse from the near east to the Balkans. About one mile per year?

That’s astonishingly slow.


11 posted on 02/26/2015 10:15:50 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: BenLurkin
"This is incredibly exciting..."

A bit of an overstatement here. Just a bit.
16 posted on 02/27/2015 6:35:44 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: BenLurkin

Like the Irish and their potatoes...


19 posted on 02/28/2015 6:46:49 AM PST by Rudder
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