Talk:Neolithic decline
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"ago"
[edit]1. "ago" is for children, not for serious historians. 2. A population decline "between five and six thousand years ago (approximately 3000 BC)" - who writes such a nonsense? 3. And obviously, the writer of these excerpts did not understand these informations himself, being not aware of the contradiction in the third para with "rapid growth between 5950 - 5590 BP". 4. All this is obviously taken from, and caused by, the 2019 Rascovan paper with its confused and slovenly mixture of "ago", "BP", "kyr (in the sense of "ago"!). 5. Rascovan et al. tell us an "invention" of the wheel. The wheel was never "invented", but develloped from toy wheels to ever bigger applications over hundreds of years (see. Holm 2019, or Klimscha 2017). Cruelly!2A02:8108:9640:AC3:6131:BC9E:A2BC:B964 (talk) 07:14, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: Plagues and People- Spring 23
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 January 2023 and 5 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): KindleHoodie (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Jay2saucy, Ninapetersenn, Bella.daly6, CJM2023, Katebryan, Pyruvate kinase, Voverbo, Noahjdengler.
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How much of a decline?
[edit]This is a valuable article, but it never gives an estimate of how much the population declined, and whether this was world-wide, only in densely populated areas or everywhere. Paulmlieberman (talk) 17:03, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck
[edit]Shouldn't the Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck be mentioned in this article? The current focus leans heavily on plague as a possible cause, yet such an event would likely impact males and females in roughly equal proportions. In contrast, the Y-chromosome bottleneck—where male genetic diversity drastically declined around 7,000 years ago—suggests a sex-specific phenomenon. This bottleneck, observed across Africa, Europe, and Asia, points to social dynamics such as patrilineal clan warfare or shifts in reproductive patterns that disproportionately affected men. - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47618-5 213.77.82.200 (talk) 11:07, 22 July 2025 (UTC)