Noah's Ark flood spurred European farming

[Denny]

An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah's Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent's earliest farmers, researchers said on Sunday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceN ... 5420071118

[Lambchop]

As a Merovingian, of the Clovis sect, I think this may violate my religious beliefs. I'm not sure which one, exactly. I'll let you know just as soon as I can cobble one together from whatever quick online research I can perform. That and a novel or two.

Be prepared.

[peeplj]

As a Merovingian, of the Clovis sect, I think this may violate my religious beliefs. I'm not sure which one, exactly. I'll let you know just as soon as I can cobble one together from whatever quick online research I can perform. That and a novel or two.

Be prepared.

Pardon me as I put on my best Arkansas drawl and inquire thusly:

Ewe're a whut?

--James

[Innocent Bystander]

As a Merovingian, of the Clovis sect, I think this may violate my religious beliefs. I'm not sure which one, exactly. I'll let you know just as soon as I can cobble one together from whatever quick online research I can perform. That and a novel or two.

Be prepared.

Why, Lambie, I had no idea you were a calligraphy enthusiast. Or were remotely interested in the works of Saki. I can only remember one story involving an ark, though, and that was in the nursery, even if the ark did get painted blood red.

[djm]

I could not help but notice that not one single person has stopped to consider how offensive this thread is to people who suffer from agriphobia. Surely a moderator will be by soon to lock this thread for the sake of those among us who are rurally challenged.

djm

[Lambchop]

As a Merovingian, of the Clovis sect, I think this may violate my religious beliefs. I'm not sure which one, exactly. I'll let you know just as soon as I can cobble one together from whatever quick online research I can perform. That and a novel or two.

Be prepared.

Why, Lambie, I had no idea you were a calligraphy enthusiast. Or were remotely interested in the works of Saki. I can only remember one story involving an ark, though, and that was in the nursery, even if the ark did get painted blood red.

Calligraphy is against my religion. We don't use any form of decorative writing, because it is frivolous. The Clovis sect split from the original Merovingians over this very issue. That and the fact they kept conducting services in garden sheds. Gardens are frivolous, too.

Don't expect to find a website explaining this. There aren't any.

[Denny]

As a Merovingian, of the Clovis sect, I think this may violate my religious beliefs. I'm not sure which one, exactly.

bit before your time, wasn't it old girl?

[cowtime]

E-I-E-I-O

[Congratulations]

The researchers believe these people took their skills to new areas previously populated by hunters and gatherers where there had been no evidence of farming, Turney said.

Not likely, according to modern anthropological thought about the origins of agriculture. More likely is that the population shift caused a sudden spike in European demographic pressure, giving them a reason to take up agriculture, which they were certainly already capable of. I'll spare you guys the intimate (that is, tedious) detail. Just understand that the whole invention/diffusion model has been defunct for decades.

Interesting article. Just wish they'd talked to an anthropologist/ethnobotanist first.

[Innocent Bystander]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian_script


Heretics!

[djm]

E-I-E-I-O

Heretics!

Heretics, theretics, everywhere a tics, tics ....

djm