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To: Ilaine who wrote (6795)	8/7/2001 1:54:12 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

Yes, India is another of the major global culture hearths (with the Middle East, China, West Africa, and Mexico at least). It does seem however that the Middle East did have a lead in agriculture mainly on the northern fringes of Mesopotamia between the plains and the mountains and early urban development a long time before the date you give - I'm not talking about the later big cities of Mesopotamia and Egypt. I'm not sure how old the earliest Egyptian and Mesopotamian writing and texts is - something to look up. I had the impression that those Hindu texts were a lot later than the date you give. Alphabetic writing systems seem to have been discovered at several times in different places around 2000-1400BC. Including Greece (Crete) and the Levant. I asked a local Sanskrit scholar here the other day how old the Indian writing systems were and he gave me a date much later - maybe in the last few centuries BC. But I'm no authority on any of this and could be wrong. David