African prehistory does not support /r/CoonTown's claims

  • First... "how is there a *possibility** of them having invented the bow and arrow tens of thousands of years before Europe?"* Do you know how ignorant that sounds? You're not presenting evidence, and, to your credit, you're not even pretending to. You're siting wild speculation as proof that Africans are equal.

  • Second: Rice... Africa had a species of wild rice (O. barthii) which they poorly cultivated into a crop. The fact that this work has been almost entirely replaced by Asian rice is testament to the incompetence of the cultivators. They couldn't make a native species work better than a non-native species, even though they were given a 2000 year head start before the introduction of the non-native species.

  • Third: You're being very deceptive with your source with regard to iron working. Your source clearly states that the majority opinion is that ironworking was taught and not discovered. From your source: "Everywhere else in Africa south of the Sahara, the use of iron succeeds the use of stone for implements and weapons. Without any intermediate copper and bronze metallurgy, it is difficult to see how late Stone Age people could have discovered the use of iron by themselves and mastered it so quickly without any outside influence". The fact that there was never a "bronze age" or the forging of lesser metals speaks volumes. It's like saying nigs invented the automobile before discovering the wheel.

Fourth: "Furthermore, there is evidence for ironworking in the Termit Hills of Niger as far back as 1400 BC, centuries before iron had properly spread to most of Europe." Um, no. Again, you're being deceptive. How about including the next sentence from your quote that completely deflates your claim: "but critics point out that the wood used for dating could have been centuries old, a problem that dogs carbon dating, especially in very arid places such as Niger, where the wood desiccates and lasts longer. Breunig acknowledges that the problem could distort dates for the Intini furnace as well". So, not only does it blow away 1400BC, but it casts doubt on the Nok timeline as well.

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