FOXY, if you mean, you, Paul et al.
I agree completely, and it's very decent of you to admit it too.
Good for you, it shows you are beginning to see beyond your immediate surroundings and safety net.
Very brave.
Good for you.
Keep it up.

There's a small problem with your suggestion that
I was referring to myself, Paul, and others,
in my previous post to Paul.

You see I couldn't help but notice that
" awesoME" ends with "ME ".
and " uninformed" " uncouth" " unfit,"
starts with - "U.

Foxy, I am so proud of you.
You are progressing so well with your spelling lessons.
That's very good, you have learnt your 'A' through to 'U'.
Now for tonight's homework, I want you to do from 'V' through to 'Z'.
Don't worry I have full confidence in you, I know you can do it.

In perhaps a vain attempt to get this tit-for-tat back to the original thread, is it proper to point out that, pretty much everywhere in the world where foraging people lived near rivers, where it was possible, people built fish traps.

Even in Greece: One can check out Google, ideally Google Scholar, about this. It's pretty obvious that foraging people in Greece were using fish traps a few thousand years before their descendants (plus a few farming imports from Anatolia) were building the amazing structures on the Acropolis, the Parthenon being the most famous. [Perhaps even the symbol for 'pi' originally represented a fish trap].

I wonder if there were any major rivers in the world - with the requisite trapping material, such as stones (as well as cane or twine formations) - where innovative foraging people did NOT construct traps of some sort ?

Joe

Joe,

Nothing is impossible,
the word itself says
"I'm possible!"

Now back to the topic.

cont'd ...

Joe,

It may even be possible for you to get answers to your
questions by actually reading Bruce Pascoe's or Bill
Gammage's books? Imagine finding out that Keith
Windschuttle's ideological arguments are more extreme
than his more established counterparts?