Yes I am but don't tell Leon that, it would spoil his fun :) And I do work with the Northern Syria Early Neolithic project. I was fortunate enough about a decade ago to acquire the library of Si… (View Post)

Your problem is you don't actually understand what you are reading. None of the paper you are quoting actually disputes what I wrote. Yes they were grinding cereals at Gobekli Tepe. But they wer… (View Post)

Not seen it but I would not disregard it. I don't get the idea that Intelligence and society suddenly sprung up overnight. Hominids have been around for a good few million years and I see no iss… (View Post)

We can't and we never will. The whole system - and the social structure that supported those years - is gone and will never return. Indeed it pretty much ate itself even as it grew. We now have … (View Post)

What he does is make false claims based on absolutely no evidence and the try and use those as a foundation for even more outlandish ideas. His books follow a familiar pattern "some have claimed… (View Post)