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From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] an unexpected haplogroup result
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:09:26 -0800
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Gary,

> Gary Felix wrote:

>The Neolithic had domesticated wheat, barley, lentil, chickpea, large seeded grasses, Sheep, Goats, Cows, Pigs and Horses. These resources were unknown in the rest of the world. This was the breadbasket of the world 8K ybp.
> The Neolithic would have only moved when things got too crowded and only to places where they could maintain their lifestyle.
>

Perhaps so, but there were other factors at work at the same time.

(1) There was a transition period between those that "followed the game"
and the first farmers. Surely, not all of them (hunter-gatherers) became
farmers at the same time. So there must have been a mix between the
total hunter gatherer culture and total farming. It took time for the
hunter-gatherer culture to decline ...

(2) The earliest farmers were not the best farmers. They moved too, but
less deliberately (slower) than the hunter gatherers. They kept moving
because they depleted the soils. Egypt was lucky because of the ebb and
flow of the Nile replenished the soils ...

(3) The peoples of the Greek Islands is another aspect. They were
farmers too, but early on they learned to build boats and navigate the
Mediterranean Sea. They needed supplies that were difficult to provide
from their smaller populations. Some became traders and they sailed the
Mediterranean. They traded widely perhaps, with Egypt and other
peoples...Their culture and genes spread that way too ...

Just some thoughts ...
Al

>It would take long term domestication to get their crops to grow in different climes.
>
> Eventually those that brought these resources to the rest of the world would be the conquerors.
>
> Gary
> Mexico DNA Project Admin.
>
>

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