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Fitbaw? Is a new word to me. I was searching for meanings and wasn't finding it readily. I've put a couple different things in but would it be ok to educate me a bit more? Thanks! Always great to learn new stuff.
 
faethor said:
Fitbaw? Is a new word to me. I was searching for meanings and wasn't finding it readily. I've put a couple different things in but would it be ok to educate me a bit more?
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My apologies. I've been using it so much lately that I kinda forgot how colloquial it is.

It's a Scottish pronunciation of football, usually written as fitba' but pronounced fitbaw.

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There's a definition here:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fitbaw

And here's a rather entertaining definition that will probably make your brain melt:
http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitbaa
 
faethor said:
@Redrumloa,
Minoans founded about 5K years ago. Came from a population that settled the area about 4K years prior to their founding.
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Did you click the Wikipedia link I provided? Mainstream is pretty firm that "modern humans" started 6,000 years ago. I am not talking about anatomically or evolution. Modern humans began when true complex civilizations started popping up.

Transition to civilization

Until c. 10,000 years ago, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. They generally lived in small nomadic groups known as band societies. The advent of agriculture prompted the Neolithic Revolution, when access to food surplus led to the formation of permanent human settlements, the domestication of animals and the use of metal tools for the first time in history. Agriculture encouraged trade and cooperation, and led to complex society. Because of the significance of this date for human society, it is the epoch of the Holocene calendar or Human Era.

About 6,000 years ago, the first proto-states developed in Mesopotamia, Egypt's Nile Valley and the Indus Valley. Military forces were formed for protection, and government bureaucracies for administration.
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So back on my main point, if there were gold mines 110,000 years ago (let alone 200,000), who mined them if not there were no societies? Middle Stone Age people?

If the Sphinx is really much older than originally thought, did Upper Palaeolithic people build it? The time frame makes more sense considering theories about using logs to transport stones. Kind of hard to cut down and use countless thousands of trees in a barren desert. The mainstream doesn't seem to think the people of the era would be capable.

I'm not sure if you are still missing my point altogether. I'm not claiming humans didn't exist prior to 6,000 years ago. I'm saying there are huge gaps in our understanding of human history. Entire chapters are likely missing.
 
Robert said:
My apologies. I've been using it so much lately that I kinda forgot how colloquial it is.

It's a Scottish pronunciation of football, usually written as fitba' but pronounced fitbaw.
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Thanks for the education:banana:
 
redrumloa said:
Did you click the Wikipedia link I provided? Mainstream is pretty firm that "modern humans" started 6,000 years ago. I am not talking about anatomically or evolution. Modern humans began when true complex civilizations started popping up.
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Your original posted used the term 'mankind' which does not have the same meaning as modern humans, as you define it. Did you read my post with the riff off from Princess Bride?

So back on my main point, if there were gold mines 110,000 years ago (let alone 200,000), who mined them if not there were no societies? Middle Stone Age people?
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Now wait a second. You defined this as 'true complex civilizations'. Complex societies are defined as one that's a political structure of leader and workers. This would imply there was a non-complex civilization. Which in turn would be a society. What's considered a stateless society are those earlier tribes where political constructs are based on kinship. It's also known that nomadic stateless tribes mined. They did so for tools for themselves and ornamentation. And likely they traded these items with others. One doesn't need a complex society to mine and we have examples of stateless societies that mined. It's not a 'no society' construct. It's just a Western bias that building one's politics and society around kinship is 'lessor' or defined as simple construct.

If the Sphinx is really much older than originally thought, did Upper Palaeolithic people build it? The time frame makes more sense considering theories about using logs to transport stones. Kind of hard to cut down and use countless thousands of trees in a barren desert. The mainstream doesn't seem to think the people of the era would be capable.
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The nile river valley was rich with flora and fauna, at one time. You're assuming the Sphinx was transported. There are also postulates it was simply carved in it's spot. For example, like Mt Rushmore. We know there were quarries around the area of the Sphinx.

I'm not sure if you are still missing my point altogether. I'm not claiming humans didn't exist prior to 6,000 years ago. I'm saying there are huge gaps in our understanding of human history. Entire chapters are likely missing.
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Indeed they are missing. Especially because written language was rare or destroyed by the annuals of time. However, let's be careful to assert 'truths' with proven and provable evidence.
 
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