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From: gordon
>. The evidence for it is not so strong as it may appear.
>
The evidence is much stronger than you assume. I suggest you read:
Cohen, Mark Nathan,
The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of
Agriculture.
New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1977.
(How environmental changes led man to seek new food
sources.)
______, Health and the Rise of Civilization.
New Haven: Yale University Press,
1993.
(How man's new food sources produced
new diseases.)
______ and G. J. Armelagos,
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture.
New York: Academic Press, 1984.
(A collection of papers that document
the differences between Paleolithic and Neolithic remains.)
Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
http://www.neanderthin.com