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>Well, mammoths were extant till about 4500 BCE, so it's conceivable human beings might have used them as beasts of burden the way some use elephants today.
Possibly. By most accounts the oldest settled civilization on Earth was from that time: the MohenjoDaro, and we're fairly certain they had domesticated horses. (They also had homes filled with these weird little action-figure lookin' things. Maybe they had ebay too?) Although I think Mammoths are considered the first species hunted to extinction. Partly; anyhoo: the changing climate probably messed 'em right up, and the humans of the day just finished 'em off.
>And who says there weren't vast armies in prehistory?
Human settlements were pretty small; the Assyrians are considered the first to really develop the idea of "army," and even then they usually headed out with a few thousand. (But we've all seen how much damage ony 300 guys in leather jockstraps can do.... inagine a few thousand.) They also developed psychological warfare.
>Recorded history, including war, exists along a continuum; human existence didn't just begin magically when the Sumerians invented cuneiform writing.
...depending on who you ask....
>As to the pyramids, it's true that most scholars date the oldest Egyptian structure to 2600 BCE; but there are those who conceive of them as being far older.
I thought they'd discovered that some of the pyramids were built over step-pyramid type buildings that were a couple hundred years older.
>This is a spectacle adventure film after all, and I'm willing to suspend belief for the sake of a good yarn.
....AND chicks in furry bikinis!
>But I don't know if those are Bikinis..
Wow, you just ruined furry bikinis for me.
Don C.
>Well, mammoths were extant till about 4500 BCE, so it's conceivable human beings might have used them as beasts of burden the way some use elephants today.
Possibly. By most accounts the oldest settled civilization on Earth was from that time: the MohenjoDaro, and we're fairly certain they had domesticated horses. (They also had homes filled with these weird little action-figure lookin' things. Maybe they had ebay too?) Although I think Mammoths are considered the first species hunted to extinction. Partly; anyhoo: the changing climate probably messed 'em right up, and the humans of the day just finished 'em off.
>And who says there weren't vast armies in prehistory?
Human settlements were pretty small; the Assyrians are considered the first to really develop the idea of "army," and even then they usually headed out with a few thousand. (But we've all seen how much damage ony 300 guys in leather jockstraps can do.... inagine a few thousand.) They also developed psychological warfare.
>Recorded history, including war, exists along a continuum; human existence didn't just begin magically when the Sumerians invented cuneiform writing.
...depending on who you ask....
>As to the pyramids, it's true that most scholars date the oldest Egyptian structure to 2600 BCE; but there are those who conceive of them as being far older.
I thought they'd discovered that some of the pyramids were built over step-pyramid type buildings that were a couple hundred years older.
>This is a spectacle adventure film after all, and I'm willing to suspend belief for the sake of a good yarn.
....AND chicks in furry bikinis!
>But I don't know if those are Bikinis..
Wow, you just ruined furry bikinis for me.
Don C.
and I know Punkin will enjoy chewing on this one.
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