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Respond to: Food remains in ancient cooking pots suggest farming caught on slowly
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Feanor
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|  New Message Posted!2011-10-26 00:41
In the context of how technology and innovation spread, it occurs that some places would have adopted farming for several generations while others would retain the 'Old Ways'.
The expansion of new, more sophisticated methods of doing things moved generally east > west, and within only a few hundred miles we would find differences - especially if some older strongholds were off the beaten track.
An excellent example of this trend is England itself, where they were more or less still hunting & gathering while the Abacus was in use in Chin and the Song of Gilgamesh was written in the Middle-East.
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Runemage
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| New Message Posted!2011-10-25 20:03
The finding challenges the traditional view that farming quickly and completely replaced the more ancient lifestyle.
Human nature being what it is, and of course accounting for the suitability of the immediate landscape, maybe some people would embrace the new ideas very quickly; the old guard would want to keep their traditions although they could be persuaded over time, whilst the stick-in-the-muds wouldn't touch it with a barge pole and would actively oppose the new ideas.
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coldrum
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| New Message Posted!2011-10-25 15:58
Our ancestors' move from hunter-gathering to farming happened gradually rather than abruptly, food residues found in 6,000-year-old cooking pots suggests.
Evidence from pots found around the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe shows farmers at the beginning of the Neolithic period continued to cook the same types of food foraged by their immediate hunter-gatherer ancestors. The finding challenges the traditional view that farming quickly and completely replaced the more ancient lifestyle.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/24/food-ancient-cooking-pots-farming
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