You have to admit
jumping up and down like an idiot in front of a herd of mammoths in the hope that they will all pile over a cliff is a pretty sexy line of work - on a par with being James Bond I'd think.
Today's British man could be descended from exciting, live-life-on-the-edge hunter-gatherers rather than migrating farmers as previously thought, according to a new gene study. Britons' slightly sexier past comes courtesy of scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, who examined the set of genes called R-M269, …
The rotating meat stick that makes a doner a doner looks kind of like an elephant/ mammoth trunk thats been roasted.
Maybe they were originally made of mammoth and you are harnessing your awesome genetic memory to recall when we had mammoth kebabs in the darkest paeolithic...?
Or, you might just like dirty, greasy food after a night out.
When we're talking about Ice Age populations, there's no real difference between all of those groups. Each one is a thin veneer of elites over a much larger population, which quickly mixes in the new elite anyway. Previous genetic studies for the UK suggest that there hasn't been a massive change of population in the last two thousand years; a language or culture change doesn't mean replacement of the population.
By your argument there's probably no such thing as a racial type for any geographic area of comparable size, such as Nevada state, northern Persia, Yunnan province or a tribal area of the Brazilian rain forest. There have been continual movements of people and gene flow all over the world over the last 40,000+ years, even if most populations don't record their history very far back. The Maori are recognised as indigenous to New Zealand yet they've only been there for 700 years so must be indisinguishable from some neighbouring populations. It's obvious that broad racial types do exist and are identifiable with larger geographic areas like North America, Northern Europe, China, sub-saharan Africa etc. Indigenous Brits are predominantly descendents of Ayrian and Alpine Caucasians, pretty much like the rest of northern and central Europe.
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The human being was a hunter before he become a farmer, any where in the world, most likely.
Digging up edible things from the ground and elsewhere is not farming.
There was this American professor or something who came to the (logical) conclusion that mankind become farmers when they understood how to make alcohol. As you cannot carry your field with you, you are stuck.
...that goes along with a long day wandering around looking for a mammoth. If you came
across a tree filled with juicy fruit, you didn't just keep walking; you stopped and grabbed a couple to munch on as you went.
Same thing here. The people are out doing their nasty business of trashing big important things: cars, shops, cops, etc. and they come across a 40" plasma TV just sitting on some shelf. So, they pick it up and take it with them. Wouldn't want it to just sit there and rot on the shelf when they could put it to good use.