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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: [ARCH] Re: Which Came First, Agriculture or Pastorial
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:49:19 GMT
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- In article <725037101snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au> gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Dec21.155050.6167@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM writes:
- >
- > > Since agriculture was possibily invented several times around the world-
- > > mideast,
- > > Harrupa, Chinea, meso AMerica, South America- several answers may right.
- >
- >Indeed, many may be right I would hope. One answer to everything would
- >be quite insufferable . . .
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- I would expect that not all groups with access to agricultural
- technology found it useful [Insert segue music].
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- Australian aborigines, who do not as far as I know practice
- agriculture, appear (from the books on Oceana I have) to have had
- contact with Torres strait Islanders, who did practice agriculture.
- Any thoughts on why agriculture never spread to Australia, prior
- to the colonisation by the UK and others?
-
- James Nicoll
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