Poster Boy Wrote:
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> ...
> Actually, conventional historians are the ones
> who have been telling the rest of us what
> pre-agricultural Man was capable of. We have been
> told that these discoveries were ONLY possible
> after settlement, by them.
>
> Talk about taking the low road. For Shermer to
> accuse Graham of this is pure BS, and really an
> attempt to muddle this issue with his Lost
> Civilization thesis. Why muddle? Probably because
> he knows that the orthos are well into the process
> of having to concede that much of their
> assumptions about the Agricultural transition were
> fiction.
>
> Despite Shermer's efforts, these remain separate
> issues, and so it is time for the orthos to adjust
> their party line yarn and forget what they've been
> telling the rest of us for probably a century by
> now, I would imagine.

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and so it is time for the orthos to adjust their party line yarn

PB

Talk about a muddle. Can you advise (clarify) how "the party line yarn" needs to be adjusted?

What is it ?
Were GT folk agrarian (settled a civilized into towns ) etc
OR
Were they nomadic hunter gatherers?

They "tell" what they know from gathered evidence, consensus (something which you endorse), until better information is available. Simples

But apparently you know better? What is it?
Cheers