been reading archeology magazine and trying to determine if the human species is capable of change...upon listening to tony bell Ph.D. senior scientist at redwood institute on the collection of interviews on the DVD collection "Consciousness" (2003) he mentions this..."Death appears to be some sort of biologically optimal process..."we need not get carried away by some kind of messianic millennial future ideal"..."but be open to the notion that dramatic phase transitions do occur"..."old thought systems do get swept away"..."plenty of examples of conceptional shifts"..."changed peoples world view in the past"..."what happens when systems become unstable and new patterns have to come in to fill in the gap?"...
also read that the Wonderwerk Cave in the Kalahari desert is the oldest hominid cave dwelling yet found and there is evidence of "deliberate" use of fire from about a million years ago...soooo....can so called modern humans switch to "sustainable" resources like real quick?
i recently wrote that "white settlers" gunned their way to the pacific ocean...or something to that effect...but according to an article in archeology magazine in 1634 AD St. Marys fort was built in Maryland on land PURCHASED from the Yaocomaco people...it is a sadly common occurrence to repeat ideas about so and so a person or group being completely rotten...even white settlers had some attributes that were not bad...
"It could have been some kind of social or ideological crisis, the abandonment of a shared belief system that people gave up on because it didn't work for them anymore." Kenneth Sassaman, University of Florida archeologist on the Mound building archaic Culture in the southeast USA which disappeared 3200 years ago....(I have visited Poverty Point mound site in Louisiana and though it is never brought up I believe that after so many years of "dunging the soil" a place just becomes too damned stinky and people head for fresher ground...just a theory...
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