[blam]

I thought farming was 'invented' in the Middle East 6-8,000 years ago. What's up with this? (The farmers of Atlantis?)

[blam]

FYI.

[Carry_Okie]

Replicating this technology would be a huge blow to Sustainable Development.

It must be banned.

Dialing my NGO lawyer in Johannesburg now...

[JimSEA]

Good Post! If you put this with the undersea finds near Cuba, India, and the Black sea, there is a lot we just do not know yet about the early story of civilization. I suspect there is more to be found under the jungle in South America and Asia.

[RightWhale]

Right. Civilization was discovered straight out of the blue in Ur with nothing coming before. Hammaurabi invented law with no precedent. Nobody thought of agriculture until beer and bread were found to be good things.

What did they grow down there in the present rainforest wasteland? Habaneros, corn, tobacco, and potatoes would be my guess, none of which were avalaible in Asia or Europe or Africa until the time of Phoenicians.

[liberallarry]

Exactly. If true, this is revolutionary. More likely, it isn't.

[pabianice]

Time is contemporaneous with Kennewick Man (11,300 years ago). More evidence that Europeans were the first to settle the Americas (that frantic shoveling noise you hear is "Native Americans" trying to rebury the evidence before it can be examined)...

[crystalk]

Just as farming was practiced briefly in Egypt some 11000 years ago to feed those building the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid, just so it was practiced briefly by the Atlantean exiles when they reached the continents of refuge.

It then seems to have died out until its reintroduction in Sumer some 6000 yrs BP.

Edgar Cayce bats 1000 again.

[Scully]

Of interest...

[Eternal_Bear]

The first Spanish explorers who sailed down the Amazon from Peru reported that the riverbanks were densely populated and under intense cultivation. I suspect European diseases caused the collapse of these societies and the floodings of the River washed away the structures.

[muawiyah]

Agriculture has been developed in several different centers. The Middle-East is only one of the centers, and it's not the oldest!

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