Origyptian Wrote:
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> Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> > Did you ever say at any time before that you
> believed the
> > AE did not make any stoneware?
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> See, this is where you seem to be making the
> logical flaw. Saying "If they made
> the vessels" is not the same as saying "they did
> not make the vessels". The former is
> an objective uncertainty based on lack of evidence
> while leaving open the possibility. The latter is
> a definitive statement of absolute denial.
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> VERY big difference.

Can't you just quote someone without misrepresenting them just one time? I did not say "So the mystery is not "if" the AE made the stone vessels" I said "So the mystery is not "if" the AE made stone vessels...". This is your comprehension flaw in that you have inserted a word to create a meaning it does not have. I am not reffering to specific vessels as I do not say "the" stone vessels, but rather left it at "stone vessels" which even Jon understood to mean "stone vessels at all". A further giveway, and the context of the statement, is the rest of the sentence which says:

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...it is why does this quality appear suddenly in Archaic Dynastic times (Dynasty 00/0), hand in hand with monumental noble tombs and boat burials among other curiosities, so fully developed and of a quality that is unsurpassed in later times...

So to make it as simple as possible:the question is not "if" the AE made stone vessels it is why are the most awesome ones found at the earliest time. I have clearly made an attempt to separate the two. Got in now Lloyd?