2Pillars said:
Mankind changed from prehistoric to Human just AFTER Noah arrived on this Planet. Civilization was born just South of the Mountains of Ararat, exactly as God told us.
The reason there is No evidence of Human Civilization before Mesopotamia, is that Humanity was inherited from Noah, a direct descendant of the first Human, Adam. Noah's grandsons married the descendants of the sons of God (Prehistoric Man) and produced those with the intelligence necessary to WRITE their own History.
This event took place some 10,000 + - years ago, and History agrees with Scripture. Evolutionism is odd man out, and NO Evol has been able to show us ANY evidence of an Earlier Human Civilization, than that which is listed in Scripture.
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Not true. THere is much evidence of civilization long prior to Mesopotamia. Try Catal Huyuk in Turkey.
"At the city site of Catal Huyuk in Asia Minor beads of lead have
been uncovered that date back to about 6500 B. C. Lead has also
been found in a sixth-s millennium B.C. context at Yarim Tepe in
Iraq, at the fifth-millennium site of Arpachiyeh in Iraq and at
the fourth-millennium sites of Anau and Hissar III in Iran and
Naqada in Egypt. The finds suggest that lead smelting, probably on
a small scale, began at least as early as the seventh millennium
B. C." Noel H. Gale and Zofia Stos-Gale, "Lead and Silver in the
Ancient Aegean," Scientific American, June 1981, p. 181
At Mureybet, around 7500 B.
C., a form of wild wheat, possibly engrain (Triticum
boeoticum) was collected there, with barley probably
cultivated next and then lentils. Around the same time,
further south, in Jericho, the starch (Triticum
dicoccum), resulting from an indigenous form (Triticum
dicoccaides), was planted with barley and lentils. The
phenomenon spread very fast in the seventh millennium B.
C. Thus, the area comprised of Anatolia to Djezireh and
to Palestine appears to have played a pioneering role in
the domestication of wheat and barley." ~ Jean Guilaine,
"The First Farmers of the Old World," in Jean Guilaine,
editor, Prehistory: The World of Early Man, (New York:
Facts on File, 1986), p. 81
"It must be noted, however, that attempts to bake clay
are dated much earlier here. At Mureybet (Syria), around
8000 B. C., small pots from terracotta were fashioned, in
an open and narrow style, whose function was without
doubt not utilitarian. However, these inventions,
completely 'cultural,' were without a future. This
ceramic disappears from the more recent levels, and the
clay, modeled and baked, will serve only for a time in
the manufacture of figurines. It is necessary to wait
for the end of the seventh millennium, more than 500
years later, to see new attempts in western Asia and the
successful production of pottery. This eventually
becomes a learned process that spreads widely throughout
Syria, Lebanon and Anatolia."" ~ Jean Guilaine, "The
First Farmers of the Old World," in Jean Guilaine,
editor, Prehistory: The World of Early Man, (New York:
Facts on File, 1986), p. 82
Mallaha, and Mureybet date from 12,000 years ago 5000 years prior to your 10,000 years ago. They had walled cities, a clear mark of civilization.
"At Mallaha (Eynan) in Palestine, in the 10th millennium,
a cluster of round cabins -- 10 to 13 feet (three to four
meters) in diameter on the average and sometimes up to 30
feet (9 meters)-- was planned. These houses were dug in
pits, and their periphery was surrounded by stone walls.
At Mureybet (Syria), in the 10th millennium, circular
habitations dug into the ground were constructed, limited
by low walls of argil and wood, and covered by a thick
coating. The preference for circular houses would be
maintained even in the beginning of the Neolithic. In
the course of the ninth millennium, Jericho (in Jordan),
already occupied by the Natufian, enlarged the town in
association with a development beyond that which was
customary for stone architecture. A high wall, 10 feet
(3 meters) thick and 13 feet (4 meters) high, could
extend out to 26 feet (8 meters), while an imposing tower
(33 feet/10 meters wide at its base and 30 feet/9 meters
high) contained an interior staircase." ~ Jean Guilaine,
"The First Farmers of the Old World," in Jean Guilaine,
editor, Prehistory: The World of Early Man, (New York:
Facts on File, 1986), p. 80-81
2Pillars says that the earliest writing is from Mesopotamia. That isn't true.
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'Earliest writing' found in China
By Paul Rincon
BBC Science
Signs carved into 8,600-year-old tortoise shells found in China may be the earliest written words, say archaeologists.
Tortoise shells bearing the ancient writing
First attempt at writing on a tortoise shell
The symbols were laid down in the late Stone Age, or Neolithic Age.
They predate the earliest recorded writings from Mesopotamia - in what is now Iraq - by more than 2,000 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2956925.stm
accessed 6-15-03
