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To: achilles2000
You OBVIOUSLY do not understand the term.

If you wanted to argue that Egypt was more advanced, certainly they were - they were the most advanced stone age culture; but they were stone age until they got introduced to bronze weapons by the Hyksos invaders.

Can a stone age culture support a massive population and make huge monuments out of stone? Sure they can, and they did, in Egypt and in the Americas. Your infantile argument might have gone better if you made it about staple crops rather than chased after the red herring of “stone age”.

I don’t watch TV, so you had better try to grind your obvious ignorant (stone) axe elsewhere.

No bronze weapons = not yet bronze age.

54 posted on 10/26/2012 11:28:45 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream

Do you know what bronze is (quick, look it up on the net)? To save you the trouble, it’s an alloy. It isn’t the first stage of metal working. Moreover, most historians doubt that there ever was an invasion by the Hyksos, despite Josephus’ account.

Whether the Hyksos invaded or migrated, Egypt was well removed from the stone age at the relevant time.

The point is, however, if you actually knew what a stone age culture really is, you wouldn’t fall for the “high count” revisionism that obviously beguiles you. North of the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle there were very few Indians, and there was no culture remotely approximating Egypt’s or even the relatively more advanced, but still primitive Meso-American cultures.

You may not watch TV, but you sound like you listen to Coast to Coast.

You need to go examine a large collection of stone age tools.


62 posted on 11/02/2012 10:17:10 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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