Trying to fathom farming's origins

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:16 am

Granted that Flax seeds are probably inedible RS but they are of course the source of Linseed oil.

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:29 am

Digit wrote:Granted that Flax seeds are probably inedible RS but they are of course the source of Linseed oil.

Phew! That's a relief!
So 'my' definition still holds . . . !

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:31 am

Digit wrote:
400 feet lower sea levels across the globe.

So?

So they walked to Oz!

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:08 am

They must have been lonely RS. Only two placental land mammals made it to Oz, Homo and Canis. If either walked why were there only the two. Deduction would suggest the Canis crossed with Homo, unless you can suggest an alternative. Further, how deep was the water and what speed and direction the current for what the Sunda Strait is notorious.

daybrown · Post by **daybrown** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:13 pm

The most likely scenario is refugees fleeing genocide. All those who looked like Aborigini were driven out, and not necessarily at the same time. Racism is durable.

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:09 am

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/s ... enDocument

A 4000 acre meto-plex must have had a pretty good sized economic sphere.

1200 years ago puts it with who, world wide?

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:23 am

kbs2244 wrote:http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/s ... enDocument

1200 years ago puts it with who, world wide?

Vikings, Medieval Europe, ascent of Islam, Chinese empire?

But it most certainly doesn't have anything at all to do with the origins of agriculture, which were at least 10,000 years earlier.

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:53 pm

I will grant you on it not being near the orgins of farming.
Farming had to be a well devloped art/science by this time to support such a place.
If you are planing to build such a place, you have to assume that you can feed the people involved. You have to have prior experience and history to go on.