Mikeqc1 ,
Sorry it has taken a while to respond. I had several pages and lost it, also I was a little busy/lazy. I'll start over and begin with disputes regarding the mentioned time line. The 10,000 BC time for the ending of the ice age sounds good. Let's look at the age of our first civilizations.
In 1965, a farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth while in the process of expanding his cellar. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back 15,000 some years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters known to have been constructed by pre-historic man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MezhirichEvidence of culture:
The Venus of Dolní Věstonice (Czech: Věstonická Venuse) is a Venus figurine, a ceramic statuette of a nude female figure dated to 29,000-25,000 BCE (Gravettian industry), which was found at a Paleolithic site in the Moravian basin south of Brno.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Doln%C3%AD_V%C4%9BstoniceMore evidence of culture:
The Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is an 11.1 cm (4 3/8 inches) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been created between 24,000 BCE - 22,000 BCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_WillendorfEvidence of culture 40,000 years ago:
Results from recent excavations at Üçağızlı Cave in Turkey and reappraisal of mollusk remains from the Lebanese Paleolithic site of Ksar 'Akil greatly alter the picture of the antiquity and distribution of early Upper Paleolithic ornament-making traditions in the eastern Mediterranean basin. Ornaments are present in large numbers in these sites in layers dating to at least 40,000 years ago, perhaps much earlier, about the same age as the earliest ornamental objects known from Central Europe and Africa.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=34721I'm begining to think the jewish timeline is flawed.
The cave was occupied from the Palaeolithic c. 21,950 BC(and possibly earlier) through the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, being abandoned about 3000 BC (Middle Neolithic). It is one of the very few settlements in the world that shows continuous human occupation for more than 20,000 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchthi_CaveNow there was also some question as to when written laungue was first used. Some forms date back to 12,000 BC. but in the Sumerian region some form have been dated to 7000 BC:
Writing in Southwest Asia--the earliest anywhere-- seems to have developed out of economic expediency. The earliest uses of pictograms in Mesopotamia--pre-writing-- predated the Sumerians. Beginning with farming some 9000 years ago, tokens marked with simple pictures began to be used to label basic farm produce
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test4materials/Writing2.htm
Topic Chit-Chat & Non-Welding Discussion / Off-Topic Bar and Grill / Is the debate on or off tonight?
