> there's an established 'story' and if someone tries to go against that established 'story' ... they will find themselves unemployable Absolute baloney, if yo

> there's an established 'story' and if someone tries to go against that established 'story' ... they will find themselves unemployable Absolute baloney, if you were a little older you might realize that "the stories" are, in fact, constantly updated and revised which is how we would expect science to work. In this case there is other support for earlier agriculture (e.g. Tell Abu Hureyra) and the people involved in that work are hardly "unemployable": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Hillman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Hillman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._M._Hedges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._M._Hedges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_M._T._Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_M._T._Moore