Todd Moody wrote:

>> 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.

>In evolutionary terms, it's a heartbeat.  In any event, the
>question still stands.  Whether it spread rapidly or slowly, the
>person who insists that paleo people didn't eat grains at all has
>the burden of explaining why they eventually  took up cultivating
>a crop that they didn't eat.

Six thousand years of gathering is enough to evolve into farming what they
have been gathering. There is no evidence of grain consumption before
17,000 years ago. It is pure conjecture on your part. The onus is on you to
come up with evidence of grain consumption before that.

Don.