Humans settled Tibet thousands of years earlier than thought… No surprise there then!

Posted On: Jan 21st, 2017 at 20:35

Tibet
In my book, The Evolution, Tibet was one of the first places settled after the fall of “Atlantis”, at least ten thousand years ago.
In this new report, scientists believe that the high Tibetan plateau was first populated between 13,000 and 7,400 years ago, much earlier than the previously accepted date of 5,200 year ago. I am forever annoyed with the date of “5,200 years ago” because it so-say pinpoints another stupid – and completely dismissible – theory that people started settling in places at the onset of agricultural practices. In other words, that is the time in history that human beings supposedly stopped wandering and hunting for food and instead settled in places and started farming. If you believe that then you are also likely to believe that bananas are racing car drivers on Thursday afternoons.
The problem with that theory – and most importantly that date – is that it has been applied to almost all human settlements all over the world, as if everybody suddenly turned to farming at the same time. I think it is more likely that people just simply got bored of wandering and exploring, and found valuable sources of food at any particular location that was, on the surface, a safe place to settle. Also, I absolutely do not believe the notion that humans wandered in certain directions because they were following the herds that provided their food. If you think about it, that is a very stupid idea. The animals will know they are being followed – they aren’t as daft as we think they are. Human being wandered because it is in our nature to explore. That’s it. They generally followed river valleys, for obvious reasons, not game.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uow-rsn010517.php