.Agriculture Origin & History In Africa & More (Part 1)
1. Any Initiate of Learning will soon discover the depth and breadth of civilization that existed in Africa before any other group of people existed on the planet.
2. Per Ancestor Diop, there were 5 human types before the type of human we are today (homo sapiens sapiens). None of the first five human types were able to overcome nature in order to create works of art. (1) By inference, the sixth human type was able to overcome nature and create works of art. Since art has been discovered 400,000 years ago, then nature must have been overcome first. To overcome necessitates understanding and thus overcoming nature is understanding nature and must include agriculture in order to have enough free time to work on creating art.
3. “In Swaziland, iron was mined 30,000 years ago.” (2) Again, nobody's doing mining before doing farming.
4. “35,000 to 40,000 years ago, the Grimaldi's from the southern tip of Africa (Monomotapa), left their writings and their pictures in caves all along the entire western coast of Africa and all along the way of their continued travels to Spain and Austria.” A reasonable person can appreciate the fact that this writing and artwork ability must have been developed in the civilization before they left Monomotapa. One can appreciate the length of time it must have taken them to travel from the tip of Africa to Austria.
5. 70,000 years ago, the world's oldest example of abstract art was found in Blombos Cave in South Africa. The engravings were complex. "There is no doubt that the people in southern Africa were behaviourally modern 70,000 years ago.”
6. ”At least 75,000 years old, early humans in South Africa built a stone calendar that predates all other man-made structures found to date. It is disrespectfully called the‘African Stonehenge’ and the “Adams Calendar.”Also, it is estimated that there are over 100,000 ancient stone ruins scattered throughout the mountains of southern Africa. These structures were not left behind by migrating hunter-gatherers. Artifacts that have been recovered from these ruins show a long and extended period of settlement that spans well over 200,000 years. Since southern Africa is the cradle of humankind, we should not be surprised to find such ruins, but we should rather expect these discoveries.”
There is absolutely NO WAY agriculture started in Asia 10,000 to 12,000 years ago unless it occurred in fantasia, a fantasy Asia. The Hapi River Valley (Nile) is part of the Great Rift Valley and is so fertile, it was the place of choice to plant and grow humans to give us the best opportunity to refine ourselves to a high degree of civilization and culture and then diversify, spread and continue to develop.
(1) Diop, Cheikh Anta, “African Origins Of Humanity”, paraphrased.
(2) Diop, Cheikh Anta., “Race And History: Origin Of Humanity And Racial Differentiation ,” The BrownWatch http://www.brown-watch.com/what-is-racism/2013/2/6/black-history-fact-the-first-inhabitant-of-europe-was-a-migr.html , Accessed 07/27/15, paraphrased.
