25th June 2012, 09:12 PM
add worms slugs and all the rest of subterainan flora funa and I bet that you could find a reason to dig into your so called rock cut pits- you might even find that in the rock strata that the grubbies are concentrated in the cracks...Anyway I am going for a, sorry- the reasom why all neolithic so called pits and I would also add almost all the "post" holes were dug might even add that all those pit/posthole alignments were a form of grub survey. They might have worked also like a quick trap you find a few grubs when digging, then wait a day and find a few more have fallen in. Possibly there is a frog angle -the angle at which a frog cant get out. Snails seem to like pits as well. I think that maybe we should see causewayed enclousers as a kind of fasionable grub trap- pest control structure (apparently only employed for a few centuries maybe a bit like walled kitchen gardens)
Now that we have estalished why the neos were making holes in the ground we have to ask why the meso dont seem to. My current thinking is that neos upset the balance of nature and this lead to an explosion of grubby things in areas of attempted cultivation and hole digging was the method that allowed these forgien cultivations to be viable. What would be graet though is that it was mesos being used to do all the digging due to thier nose for hunting.
Now that we have estalished why the neos were making holes in the ground we have to ask why the meso dont seem to. My current thinking is that neos upset the balance of nature and this lead to an explosion of grubby things in areas of attempted cultivation and hole digging was the method that allowed these forgien cultivations to be viable. What would be graet though is that it was mesos being used to do all the digging due to thier nose for hunting.
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