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Trying To Fathom Farming's Origins
The Columbus Dispatch ^
| 8-14-2007
| Bradley T Lepper
Posted on 08/15/2007 10:42:04 AM PDT by blam
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"...why people all suddenly turned to farming required a global explanation." Oops.
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posted on
08/15/2007 10:42:06 AM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/15/2007 10:42:31 AM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
Did they find a 9000 year old Burpee’s Seed Catalog, too?.......
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posted on
08/15/2007 10:50:17 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor..................)
To: blam
Nanchoc Valley of northern Peru, they found squash seeds that were more than 9,000 years old.
I figure people started farming about 15 minuets after discovering beer
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posted on
08/15/2007 10:51:00 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: blam
Given that the civilizations of the Old and New Worlds developed independently, there is no reason to expect that peoples on opposite sides of the globe all would adopt agriculture within a short period of time. We all know that people get hungry at different rates.
(Do I really need the /s?)
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posted on
08/15/2007 10:59:44 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: grjr21
To: blam
aliens can travel preeeettyyyyyy quick ya know...
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:04:01 AM PDT
by
gobucks
(Blissful Marriage: A result of a worldly husband's transformation into the Word's wife.)
To: blam
Given that the civilizations of the Old and New Worlds developed independently, there is no reason to expect that peoples on opposite sides of the globe all would adopt agriculture within a short period of time.Umm...yes there is. It's called Atlantis.
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:06:04 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
("I shall need the clankers.")
To: blam
Farming began because early men needed the grain to make beer.
Later, grape farming developed because girly men needed the grapes to make chablis...
To: blam
What I wonder is why anyone thinks it is surprising that agriculture might spread around the world in a "mere" 3,000 years. The other interesting facts, not mentioned in this article, is how very much of the agriculture we take for granted comes not from Europe/Asia but from South America. Beans, potatoes, tomatoes, corn, squash - it makes you wonder what Europeans ate before 1492 besides bread.
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:11:45 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:25:21 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
because they didn’t have the internet to look up ‘farming’ in wikipedia :)
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:34:16 AM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Pumpkin patch dies 12,000 years ago. No one around. What happened to the seeds? Someone finds the seeds 12,000 years later. Aha, farming is 12,000 years old. Write article. Global significance.
yitbos
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:36:23 AM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
it makes you wonder what Europeans ate before 1492 besides breadFour and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie. With manioc root presumably.
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:37:00 AM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Bread, beer, cheese, cabbage, beets, turnips, lentils, olives and, with luck, an occasional bit of meat or fish.
Pizza hadn’t even been invented!
How they survived is not as miraculous as why they bothered!
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:41:06 AM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
To: blam
...farming as a way of artificially boosting food production.Another human-hating, leftist archaeologist. Ants farm aphids, is this "artificial?"
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posted on
08/15/2007 11:45:50 AM PDT
by
Rudder
To: null and void
“How they survived is not as miraculous as why they bothered!”
You answered your own question. Second one from the left.
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posted on
08/15/2007 12:04:09 PM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: bruinbirdman
More than just seeds.
The squash seeds were found in Nanchoc Valley, about 400 miles north of Lima. Researchers also found peanut hulls and cotton fibers that date back 6,000 to 8,500 years, as well as stone hoes, furrowed garden plots and small irrigation canals.
More Infor
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posted on
08/15/2007 12:06:58 PM PDT
by
elli1
To: Rinnwald
Yeah. I thought of that as soon as I hit post.
Still, no chocolate????
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posted on
08/15/2007 12:15:08 PM PDT
by
null and void
(I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
To: elli1
"More than just seeds."The reeeeeeeeeeeeest of the story is not in original article. I see.
yitbos
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posted on
08/15/2007 12:44:01 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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