RE: The mistake of agriculture (was: evolution and diet)

From: Spike (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 09:53:27 MDT

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    >> I see no fundamental distinction between cave paintings of wild
    animals and
    >> more abstract symbols representing a number of animals used later
    during
    >> Neolithic and modern times...

    >...Of course, we might not know the context. Maybe a bull really was
    the
    >letter 'A', a hunter was an ideogram of 'man' and a negative picture of
    >a hand represented the concept of divine foresight, but it does not
    seem
    >likely. As Diamond pointed out, invention of writing is hard and has
    >happened only a few times, but once it is done it is easily copied and
    >spreads rapidly... Anders

    Anders, the invention of writing was actually very simple. Some kid
    Was eating his alphabet soup and an idea suddenly occurred to him:
    HEY! Thous guys! We can make words outta these things!

    That is how writing was first invented. spike

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