At 15:42 2000-01-29 -0600, Ward wrote:

>the myth of those supposed
>Paleolithic brutes [ooga, ooga :^) ] who must surely have been outlived by
>those far more civilized agriculturalists following them who ushered in the
>dawn of the earliest thing we can relate to as REAL civilization. It would
>be interesting to know where this myth got started.

Probably already with the first "civilized agriculturalists", because
they needed a good excuse for their behaviour. Usually when something
is advertised as superior in some aspect, it is in fact the contrary,
otherwise no advertising was needed, facts will show anyway.

- Hans