Tue, Aug-09-16, 02:09
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It's quite likely we're not talking about "humans", but about a different species altogether. There's agricultural terraces that cover about 450,000 square kilometers in South Africa, they're about 300,000 years old. Now, if that stone axe is 250,000 yo, how can we explain extensive agriculture on an industrial scale 50,000 years earlier?
Until recently, I used to believe agriculture only appeared about 10k years ago, but I changed my mind when I found out about those terraces in SA. From that point on I started to question everything I believed about our ancient history. Those terraces seem to refute the idea that we're well adapted to eat meat, and confirm the idea that we're better adapted to eat plants, but not really. Let's look at what we do with agriculture, and maybe those terraces were used in the same way then. So grains/beer -/bread -/cattle feed, grapes/wine, what else? I don't know if there's evidence of that near those terraces but I think we should find out.
So maybe the point is we can't rely on what's in our books, or that tiny drop of blood on a stone axe, since the mere existence of those terraces tells us we have no clue, really.
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