Re Ron comments:- I thought I'd made it very clear that I did not imply cultural stagnation, merely technological stagnation yet you choose to imply all sorts of things I clearly never meant to say.

. As for claims re being cheated, not at all. I find your occasional posts re grains quite useful, for example,
, but clearly, given the level of reaction involved, for reasons of objectivity  I would need to get reliable info re hunter-gatherers from different sources.

Geoff