Viggen Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 A team of Australian archaeologists have sparked an academic row by claiming to have solved the riddle of a missing 1,000 years in human prehistory. The scientists from Melbourne's La Trobe University have found remnants of grains on the shore of the Dead Sea in Jordan that they believe help fill the 1,000-year gap in our knowledge of man's transition from nomad to farmer. But not everyone agrees, and the Australian team is now muscling up for an academic arm wrestle next month with the exponents of different theories in France. The debate is all about the period when man shifted from being a nomadic hunter-gatherer to settling down as a sedentary farmer. full story at The Age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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