Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Science doesn't explain it, or you simply do not know the science?

The rise of agriculture coincides with the end of the ice age. Perhaps these two events are related, and perhaps there are scientific theories explaining it.
Yeah I know I looked into that, and knew that would be brought up. The thing is we are talking about completely disconnected peoples growing all sorts of different crops in completely different climates - much of the world was suitable for some sort of agriculture even during the last glacial period. Please explain why we record agriculture as beginning at around 7,000 BC in Papua New Guinea, 10,000 BC in Mexico, 5-8,000 BC in South America, when these areas were all still temperate or tropical even during the maximum extent of the ice sheet during the last glacial period (a full 22,000 years ago, supposedly).

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