From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    SolomonW wrote:   
      
   > Now Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef and Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University's   
   > Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures have used radiocarbon   
   > dating to pinpoint the moment when domesticated camels arrived in the   
   > southern Levant, pushing the estimate from the 12th to the 9th century BCE.   
      
   I would be shocked if Nabataean traders didn't have   
   contact with an important site, like a copper mine,   
   starting about when they could. But these would have   
   been anomalies even amongst the traders!  After all,   
   what good business man is going to tell everyone where   
   he's getting his cheap copper from!   
      
       ...but it's also important to not make too much   
   of anomalous finds. I'm reminded of the Giraffe bone   
   the found, apparently butchered & eaten, within the   
   garbage left behind by a restaurant in Pompeii...   
      
   https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-did-p   
   ople-in-ancient-pompeii-end-up-eating-giraffes/282795/   
      
      ...and I have run across numerous "Social   
   Justice Warriors" -- bed wetters with their   
   heads wedged up the past -- cherry picking a   
   few odd tomb depictions from ancient Egypt and   
   insisting that they were all subSaharan Africans.   
      
   "You can find tomb depictions of Baboons doing   
   labor," I'd point out. "Does this prove the   
   ancient Egyptians were all Baboons?"   
      
   The point is, the best of "Evidence" can be   
   interpreted more than one way, and anomalous   
   evidence is still an anomaly.   
      
      
      
      
      
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