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llashram

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1. africans were

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Tue May 10, 2022, 04:40 PM

May 2022

settled and doing hunter gathers-agriculture at this time described and all the way back...600,000 to 200,000 BCE. But interesting nonetheless. I'd still cause this individual some problems if in his type of classes---I think this one is trying to diminish the African origins...again. You know light skin and all that...first...not brown skin. But Jesus was white for a couple of millennia. "The Dawn of Civilization"? I don't think so.

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Gbekli Tepe: The Dawn of Civilization [View all] Quixote1818 May 2022 OP

africans were llashram May 2022 #1

Agriculture in Africa 600,000 years ago wnylib May 2022 #7

destruction llashram May 2022 #13

I see. Thank you. wnylib May 2022 #17

How amazing! PoindexterOglethorpe May 2022 #2

World's first brewery. You get a bunch of guys together drinking beer Gaugamela May 2022 #3

Partially agree about the connection between grain domestication and brewing alcohol Warpy May 2022 #5

Fair enough. Mostly I'm having a little light-hearted fun. Gaugamela May 2022 #6

Maybe, but you were right Warpy May 2022 #8

There is a fascinating, if highly speculative, book on this: Gaugamela May 2022 #14

I don't think you can tie any one concoction to anything in deeper time Warpy May 2022 #18

Interesting. A lot of archaeologists have discounted the temple idea Warpy May 2022 #4

Usually there is some kind of ideology wnylib May 2022 #9

Ceremony leaves traces Warpy May 2022 #11

Archaeologists make mistakes in their wnylib May 2022 #16

Consider their time Warpy May 2022 #19

Absence of sacrifice is not an indicator of wnylib May 2022 #20

Anyone who insists it was a place of religious ceremony needs to prove it. Warpy May 2022 #21

Recently found this series...illuminating pecosbob May 2022 #10

Some of that series is an example of why kids get turned off to history Warpy May 2022 #12

I watched the entire series pecosbob May 2022 #15