On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:52:11 +0200, Hans Kylberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>At 10:42 1998-07-27 -0400, Amadeus wrote:
>>Grains  succeeded,
>>may it be for other reasons(durability),
>
>Grains can be stored. This makes possible division of labour, power and
>social status followed by an organized community, cities, countries, armies,
>monetary economies, laws and so on. Thats the reason.
>
>- Hans
Of course other plants like carrots, turnips, potatoes
and several kinds of nuts (chestnut, hazel) can be stored easily
over the winter and longer.
They can be transported more easily for armies, that's true.

Isn't it funny that the linearbandceramic people, the first
neolithic culture all over middle europe (france germany poland..)
had _no_ weapons at all? not for hunting, not for wars.
There are only 2 single burries where arrowheads could be interpretet,
for a culture spreading all over europe.
Even after they should have done some kind of "protection"-hunting
for their fields, it seems they didn't.
Linearband lasted 400 years.
These were the first 400 years of neolithicum , replacing mesolithc
culture in a sudden.

Amadeus