From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 15:50:18 MDT
On Sunday, April 13, 2003 12:09 PM gts gts_2000@yahoo.com wrote:
> With respect to agriculture we must rely on archeological
> evidence and carbon-dating, etc. I seem to recall that the
> first evidence of seed grinding (flour making) was
> discovered somewhere near Israel and dates back
> something like 11 to 12 thousand years.
>
> Prior to that technological advance, everyone was a
> hunter/gatherer.
My piont, too, was not that preagricultural humans were not
hunter-gatherers, but that they might not have been hunter-gatherers in
the same way that modern hunter-gatherers are.
I would still like to see positive evidence.
Also, there possibly was a horticultural stage.
Later!
Dan
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