The spread of pottery parallels the spread of vermin rodents. Early pottery was likely a response to rats or mice gnawing through baskets to get at the food stored in early villages. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/12/26/096800 … http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/12/26/096800.full.pdf … http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/when-did-humans-settle-down-house-mouse-may-have-answer …https://www.palmstrading.com/native-american-pottery/native-seed-pots/ …
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Dogs have been popular for food in East Asia for a long time, perhaps they were farmed?. Also isn't east Asia inherently warmer than regions inhabited by wolves?
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20K BCE was during an long ice age.
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Makes sense then :)
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Increase security before increasing storage capacity. I can imagine a few modern parallels.
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Bingo.
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Dogs were a trusted third party...until they ate the food.
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Sometimes there is no single point of origin. Much like Koala fingerprints, the toss of a million sided coin can land the same way in different places at the same time.
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It's amazing discovering the origin of the assumed ordinary! Thank you Nick!
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I’m guessing service dogs originated there as well to keep camel riders feeling “secure” along the Silk Road?
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Yeah, it’s interesting but how does this tie to bitcoin?
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