Your description of Catal hoyuk makes me think of the kind of 'culture' that might have developed among Bone Tomahawk injuns if they had only taken responsibility, stopped with the cannibalism and settled down into traditional married life.
That's one thing the genetic evidence doesn't show, but we can make inferences based on what we know about more contemporary groups that live in a similar manner (e.g. the carrying capacity of the land, etc.). The genetic evidence does make clear that this was a large-scale movement of peoples. It had to be to replace the entire male lineages of the existing populations in what looks like the space of a few generations. Maybe I'll have Herb back on to talk about Neanderthals?
Your description of Catal hoyuk makes me think of the kind of 'culture' that might have developed among Bone Tomahawk injuns if they had only taken responsibility, stopped with the cannibalism and settled down into traditional married life.
Kek. What a charming film that was!
it was indeed a shocker
That's one thing the genetic evidence doesn't show, but we can make inferences based on what we know about more contemporary groups that live in a similar manner (e.g. the carrying capacity of the land, etc.). The genetic evidence does make clear that this was a large-scale movement of peoples. It had to be to replace the entire male lineages of the existing populations in what looks like the space of a few generations. Maybe I'll have Herb back on to talk about Neanderthals?