Posted Mar 6, 2004 by Sea Change
You cite Jared Diamond, but don't mention New Guinea as a point of origination of neolithic culture. Why do you think he's wrong?
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Posted Mar 6, 2004 by Woodpigeon (blasphemy now illegal in Ireland. It is 2010 after all)
Hi Sea Change,
I think it's more of a sin of omission in the entry rather than any deliberate policy to exclude New Guinea. My understanding is that there were at least 7 different locations on the planet where farming was independently discovered in the past 10,000 years. My aim in the entry was to give people a flavour of the importance of these times to our world culture and not to go for complete comprehensiveness - I leave that up to some of the texts for further reading identified here.
Thanks,
 Woodpigeon
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