Dave L Wrote:
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> I am not denying other people have made
> contributions at all anywhere, but most of these
> developments are much later, and many of the are
> based on developments made earlier, many of them
> in Egypt.

The first pottery in Egypt is older than the 10kya Japanese pottery found?
Please cite an example...
The current accepted pottery development sequence goes Japan > China > Mid East > Thrace-Balkans > Europe.

Rice was intentionally cultivated 12kya Indochina, and nearly that long ago einkorn was intentionally cultivated in the SW Turkish Mountains.
Please cite an example of intentional cultivation agriculture predating this from Egypt...

Dave L. you made a statement quoted above that Egypt is basically the source civilization of all cited examples offered to you, please list any resources I can see this documented on.

> The impact of the Nile civilisation was huge,
> mostly because the population was relatively huge
> once they had organised the agriculture
> systematically and on an industrial scale.
>
> Dave L

Yes the population was huge circa 7,000 years ago, but so was China's & India's.
In fact only Europe was still struggling to establish more than scattered villages.
I think every culture made significant contributions to developing society, but I would be very cautious before dismissing concurrent development or laying all creative steps at one culture's doorstep.

Jammer