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To: Candor7
The problem with this theory is that sheep and goats were introduced into the Americas by European settlers after 1492.

Unless all the goats and sheep died out after the Sumerians left or that that the Sumerians used the term goat or sheep for an indigenous native American animal like a deer or buffalo then the receipt makes no sense.

16 posted on 12/24/2025 3:21:55 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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To: rdcbn1

Goats and sheep need to be protected from predators. Both wolves and indians were predators and also migratory scavengers. The sheep never stood a chance after the fall of Sumer ~1800 BC.


17 posted on 12/24/2025 3:47:23 AM PST by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: rdcbn1

There is a third possibility, that the Sumerians brought theor own breedomg stock with them and had their own herds whichi later did not survive their absence.

I bet there is archaeological evidence of Sumerian settlement somewhere in America.Or else we would not have these cuneiform receipts.

Ground scanning radar anyone?


44 posted on 12/25/2025 4:48:01 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: rdcbn1

They could have identified native mountain goats as goats as we did and still do have mountain goats. I don’t know what they would have called a sheep, unless the hairy buffalo.


48 posted on 12/30/2025 1:50:48 AM PST by gleeaikin (Question e;Ays they do no6utahority: report facts, and post their links in your message.)
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