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The alarm system of barking dogs helped protect people in a long-term camp or village along with the food stored in that settlement. Dogs could provide an emergency food source & may have facilitated the movement of stored food by pulling sleds.
Coastal villages, which were likely numerous & permanent, & lived off of abundant fish & dense populations of littoral animals, have been largely lost to archaeology due to global warming & sea level rise at the end of the last glaciation.
The abundance of littoral food sources probably gave coastal peoples more motivation than inlanders to stay longer & store more food, so they may have been the original sources of this adaptation cluster (dogs, vermin, pottery). Archaeologists only have access to inland sites.
Long-term coastal settlements may have resembled those much later documented by travelers & ethnologists, for example the Nivkh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivkh_people … the Kwakwakaʼwakw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw … and the Yurok https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/conflict-and-collectibles-among-yurok_87.html …
One must be cautious about the documented observations, however, since, especially in the case of the Kwakwakaʼwakw, they were often made after their cultures had been severely disrupted by European contact.
ht to the polymath Tim May for pointing out to me the likely importance of coastal villages as technological leaders during the millennia leading up to the dawn of agriculture.
This wide spread loss might be the basis for the universal story of The Flood What started as an historical memory morphed into a universal mythology
I’ve been cracking out on Graham Hancock lectures the last few weeks. Fun stuff. The flood coinciding with the end of the Younger Dryas, probably a comet strike in North America, is very compelling.
He highlights interesting things but I find "lost fishing villages" far more likely than "lost civilizations."
Do you think it's possible that these coastal civilizations that were likely wiped out by the sea level rise were crossing certain oceans? It might explain the America's Viracocha and quetzalcoatl civilisation bringers who came from across the sea.
There’s a cool doc called Maidentrip about a 14-year old Dutch girl who sailed around the world solo in a 38-foot ketch. After watching it I lost all doubt that global sailing has been ongoing for tens of thousands of years. Homo sapiens go back 200k years. 8,000 generations.
Doesn’t require advanced civilization, just more advanced than the linear history we largely accepted based on scant evidence. I think uncertainty is a better position than steadfast belief they’ve got it all sorted by now.
Whoever made Gobekli Tepe 11k years ago certainly had the technological capacity to make an ocean faring sailboat. The big mystery is whether they had the idea of doing so, or more importantly, the intellectual capacity to have the idea of doing so. That... we do not know yet.
This might interest you, it's about the lost coastal villages of my region: https://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/02/ravenserodd-lost-towns-yorkshire-coast.html?m=1 …
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