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Old 01-29-2003, 06:48 PM   #31
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O.K. Here's my problem. I know almost nothing about archaeology. Finkelstein and Silberman claim that camels were not domesticated ... until well after 1000 B.C. The apologitics site claims they were domesticated much earlier. I could never learn enough to examine and interpret all the evidence on my own. Is there a final authority on the subject? One major society? Could this question be answered so soundly that anyone that wanted to be taken seriously would not be able to deny it?
One thing to keep in mind is that this particular website appeals to Creationism as a proof that camels must have been known to the ancient near east, since the beginning.

Another point to keep in mind - and I saw another apologist try this trick before - they used archaeological evidence of the domestication of Bactrian camels in central Asia from earlier milennia as proof that dromedary camels could have been domestisticated in the Fertile Crescent. But Bactrian is not dromedary, and what might have been domesticated in central Asia says nothing about what happened in the Fertile Crescent, thousands of miles away.

Finally, evidence of statues, animal heads, etc. that show up as pottery or as personal articles (jars, handles of hairbrushes, etc.) are not evidence of domestication. The Egyptians used the image of crocodiles and hippopotamuses in many such daily household items. Yet neither animal was ever domesticated by them.
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