Todd Moody wrote:

>And anyone who argues that paleolithic people didn't eat, and
>like, grains *at all* must have a difficult time explaining the
>rather rapid transition to large-scale cultivation of these crops
>when agriculture finally did begin.

Rapid transition? I wrote they started gathering them 17,000 years ago. And
it is commonly written that farming started 10-11,000 years ago. That's
6,000 years. I wouldn't call that rapid. And then it took thousands more
years to spread out of the Near East.

Don.