From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19874
Date: 2003-03-16
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From: "S.Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:00 AM
Subject: [tied] Schela Cladovei
> Over 9000 years ago, on the danube, it was here that "the first dwellings of Europe were built, the first inhabitants were buried, the first vegetables were raised and the first surgical operations were performed. The first works of art were also created here."
The above is sheer nonsense. Pre-Neolithic Europeans made rather solid huts, buried their dead, had well-developed arts (as represented by Palaeolithic figurines and cave paintings) and were capable of performing surgical operations (probably including skull trepanation that didn't kill the patient).
Piotr