Posted on 06/22/2016 11:55:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Common sense is precluded by DNA differences?
Need grains for... beer...
BF = Before Flood
AF = After Flood
Adam was the first farmer.
——wild boars——
At what point did pigs become taboo in the very area said to have domesticated them?
I don’tr think we know why the Bible in what 1800 bc, and Mohamed 1200 years later declared pigs forbidden
Invented, huh. Birds do it naturally.
so what is the dna tale on inbreeding in the ME?
All not long after extinction of the cave lion, around the extinction of the Etruscan bear, cave hyena and saber toothed cat (Homotherium). So, humans ran less, and could rest long enough to watch things grow. Human populations increased with predators less present.
When Jesus forced the multitude ofor spirits out of the man, and into pigs who then hurled themselves over a cliff, they became forbidden.
Good points -- probably had something to do with systematic destruction of those large, dangerous predators. The Romans liked to use bears in their games, and an African species which was a big favorite no longer exists as a consequence. Whoops..
Bees also. Even educated fleas.
The Big Old Mo plagiarized the food laws from Judaism.
The kosher beasts have to go on the hoof and chew their cud — chickens are okay, fish are ok.
Pork and human flesh are said to be indistinguishable — I’d be surprised if that wasn’t a big reason for the restriction against pork.
now that is a very interesting fact. I had always assumed the taboo was trichinosis related
For the most part, the food laws were there to keep cultural separation from surrounding people, and probably got some kind of start during the centuries of captivity in Egypt. It’s very unlikely that they had any idea about trichinosis.
Exactly. Look - as humans our killer app is that we can run long distance while being able to cool. Another is that we can work cooperatively in a group to fend off a larger, faster and more powerful predators by using music. Just look at a Maori Haka as ask yourself whether big cat might view the whole group as a threat larger than any one human.
So, to me, all this thought that Holocene megafauna extinction somehow has a anthropogenic origin is ridiculous. The innovation of farming came about as a result of the extinction event, not human conduct causing the extinction. Thinking that we humans are so powerful chokes off thought directed at examining larger forces.
How much though has been put in academia to increased incidence of solar particle events and solar activity that corresponds to the Megafaunal Extinction? To the fact that there is a C-14 anomaly at the Younger Dryas/Allerod boundary? To the fact that there are increased Beryllium-10 deposition rates while the extinction was taking place?
No, nothing happenng here. It must be that humans hunted the Megafauna to extinction. I am not a scientist, but looking to anthropogenic origin just seems to be bad science and a fetish.
ok - </rant>
Not to mention, when critters got scarce, so did the food supply, hence, farming becomes important.
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