Re: Fw: [cybalist] Re: Tyrrhenus (was Easter)

At 10:51 2000-04-30 -0000, you wrote:

> Especially since this is the period
>of post glacial global warming, and cultures were moving from the
>south to the north, rather than from the north to the south. The
>glacial climate of a high rainfall Mediterranean was giving way to
>the
>summer drought climate, and it is hard to see why people on the
>forest
>edge of the northern steppes, adapted to cold winters and seasonal
>precipitation, would move into an area of increasing aridity, unless
>driven by population pressure. In fact, because the cultural
>innovations were decidedly coming out of Africa (i.e. the Aterian
>culture had bows and arrows 30,000 BCE, Kebaran 15,000 BCE, Steppe
>cultures from 9,000 BCE) the population pressure was decidedly in the
>other direction.

One small point, the mediterranean glacial climate was *not* high rainfall.
As a matter of fact it was a great deal more arid than at present with very
widespread cold/dry steppes and forests only on windward mountain slopes
where there was orographic rain.

Tommy Tyrberg
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