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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4219460, member: 110350"]Actually, it's more like 10,000 years since we started developing those things. And we were only "wandering around" outside Africa for about 40,000 years before that, because that's when our particular species of human being left Africa. Of course, they encountered other now-extinct human species in their travels. And all of them were producing art, in and out of Africa, for most of those 40,000 years, as well as, I'm sure, structures outside caves. There was simply no reason to develop agriculture before then, even though they utilized plants as food.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've always found evidence-based archaeology and anthropology far more interesting -- it's endlessly fascinating, really, especially with all the present-day genetic evidence -- than wild speculation based on unfounded assumptions without any supporting facts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Separately, I also wonder whether people realize how much of so-called "alternative archaeology" -- especially when its proponents start bloviating about aliens, etc. -- has its roots in 19th and early 20th century racist beliefs that so-called savages (like Native Americans) and other non-white peoples were incapable of building pyramids and other artifacts of civilization.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4219460, member: 110350"]Actually, it's more like 10,000 years since we started developing those things. And we were only "wandering around" outside Africa for about 40,000 years before that, because that's when our particular species of human being left Africa. Of course, they encountered other now-extinct human species in their travels. And all of them were producing art, in and out of Africa, for most of those 40,000 years, as well as, I'm sure, structures outside caves. There was simply no reason to develop agriculture before then, even though they utilized plants as food. I've always found evidence-based archaeology and anthropology far more interesting -- it's endlessly fascinating, really, especially with all the present-day genetic evidence -- than wild speculation based on unfounded assumptions without any supporting facts. Separately, I also wonder whether people realize how much of so-called "alternative archaeology" -- especially when its proponents start bloviating about aliens, etc. -- has its roots in 19th and early 20th century racist beliefs that so-called savages (like Native Americans) and other non-white peoples were incapable of building pyramids and other artifacts of civilization.[/QUOTE]
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