On 4/8/06, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ^^^^ > CB: It's not all specualation, because archaeology can do things like tell > the timing of the origin of the bow. Then the locations have or don't have > other signs of gender and class oppression before or after the time the bow > arises. It is not as completely speculative as one might think. > Possibilities can be eliminated , even if affirmative statements can't be > made. >
Right, but the reason I don't think it will reach the level of theory anytime so, is we won't get the possibilties down to "one" or even to the point where we can apply Occams razor. I think we will, at least for a long time to come, have more than equally simple explanation that fits all the facts we know - because we know so few facts. Note that class opression does not happen upon the invention of the bow - it happens following the extermination of predators, which probably takes quite a long time. So confirmation would be finding signs of class opression following the invention of the bow, but preceding the invention of agriculture - which I'm pretty sure the archeological record does in fact show. But the problem is that is not really confirmation. I'll bet equally plausible explainations are possible for that, which are no more complicated.
