Re: Single origin of agriculture ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> > > It always puzzled me why PIE *pak-
> > > *pag- seemed to have to do with construction in or near water
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> > Stilts?
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> Paul Manasala thinks so, w.r.t. the houses on stilts found on Lake
> Geneva.

Manansala, that is.

Also. I suspect a connection with canal-construction and irrigation
and wet-field management in general.

Torsten