Re: voting results

Part 2

> Gerry wrote:
> So you are championing independent evolution for state/class formation
> and agriculture. I think I am also. I think that if the situation is
> ripe for something to occur, it usually will (by this I mean that if
> hunting and gathering depletes the resources in a given area, man must
> "invent" another way to survive. So man "invents" agriculture.

> Alexander: I'm afraid women had "invented" agriculture (at least in the Near East center).

Gerry here: Actually if we wish to become VERY technical, I don't think
anyone actually invented agriculture; rather it just happened. How
would you define agriculture? And if women "invented" it, then were the
men sent to work the fields ;-)

> Gerry: And why do you think dogs are almost universally spread?

> Alexander: Archaeology shows it. In contrary to "normal" animals dogs >were domesticated to
>be helpers in hunting, not to be eaten (although this happened in some
>post-Neolithic cultures). The domestication was in Mesolithic or even >in Late
>Paleolithic. Particularly dogs came in America from Asia with people.

Gerry: Yes you are correct. Valery Alekseev would also agree with you.
And dogs entered South America from Asia and Mexico from Asia etc.