ALTRAV,

You've just proven my point.

We don't insult people.
We accurately describe them.
Therein lies the difference.

Foxy correction: You don't accurately describe them.
To do so, you need to know the entity you are going to attempt to describe, intimately and in detail.
Again you fail, and proven MY point.
Without full and detailed knowledge of the person you choose to malign or describe, you can only, at best, make an irrelevant and un-informed attempt at commenting on them.
An un-informed comment is probably more accurate.
Sound familiar, you and your lot are well versed in the practice.
I tell you what, as I am well represented on the net, why don't you look me up and reference me, or cut and paste,or whatever you normally do in quoting other sources.
Yeah, right, as if, I'm not quite ready to reveal my true identity.
You will just have to wait a little longer to get to know me better, and maybe, just maybe, I might let my guard down enough one day to give away a little more than I otherwise would or should.
Anyway good try, but keep at it, at least 'I' am enjoying myself.
I look forward to your next installment.

ALTRAV,

Your posts speak for themselves.

Nothing more needs to be said.

Maybe a like button? Foxy could not agree more but in the end not bothering with some is the best thing to do

Loudmouth wrote: "everywhere in the world where foraging people lived near rivers, where it was possible, people built fish traps. "

Spot on. Earlier in this thread I wrote:

"The only way you could swoon over what was done at Budj Bim is if you are utterly ignorant of achievements such as Göbekli Tepe or 100's of other stone age sites from Scotland to China.

Budj Bim is only remarkable because it was so unusual in Australia. But if it was found in Asia or Europe it would barely rate a yawn."

For example, while the aboriginals were putting a coupla stones on top of each other to provide a windbreak, stone age peoples elsewhere were creating civilisation.... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-17/prehistoric-city-offers-glimpse-of-ancient-living-near-jerusalem/11315532

But the Foxy's and Pauls of this world will continue to swoon over those couple of rocks because...well just because.

mhaze,

"Just because?"

Yes I agree it is "just because" of the evidence
presented to us.

The evidence insists that
Aboriginal people right across the continent
were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting,
irrigating and storing - behaviours inconsistent
with the hunter-gatherer tag.
And I think it's evident in Aboriginal peoples'
circumspection of the dominant settler culture
today.