Did Adam Start the "Pre-Pottery Neolithic"?

I noticed an archaeological paper with an interesting take on the formation of the so-called "pre-pottery Neolithic" This quote is found at the end of the section "The Pre-Pottery
Neolithic Period (10,500–7000 BCE), Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the problem of origins:"

The beginning of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture in southeastern Turkey is at least a millennium earlier than in central Anatolia. There, as in northern Syria and Iraq, it appears almost suddenly, fully developed with no detectable predecessors. The early stages of PPNA are now known from Hallan Çemi, Körtik Tepe, Gürcütepe, all sharing similar but at the same time rather sophisticated assemblages; considering the homogeneity and the high level of sophistication, it seems obvious to surmise that there must have been a long period for it to develop earlier. In our view,the early cultures of the southern Levant do lack the degree of sophistication to be the ancestral stage of these cultures;

The authors are suggesting that Southeastern Turkey was where this phase first appears, and that the traditional view that it was borrowed from the Natufian culture in the southern Levant can't be right because it was too sophisticated. Yet the culture appears out of nowhere, with no detectable predecessors. This is very similar to the time and the place I think Adam and Eve wound up after they were expelled from the garden. Here is the extent of the culture when it moved to "phase B"....




The "Pre-Pottery" Neolithic B around 7,500 B.C. , Click for Larger View

The "pre-pottery" Neolithic wasn't a culture without pots. They had gorgeous and durable pots which they fashioned from various types of stone, like this one form about the same time period as the map...




So the development of clay pots via a potter's wheel is analogous to the printing press. It didn't make something new, we had books before that. It didn't make books more beautiful, the handcrafted books books were often much more artistic. It did make them much cheaper and and more common. Over in what is now China they had been making clay pots for some time. So "pre-pottery" as a label is somewhat deceptive. The "Pre-pottery Neolithic" was a time of tremendous advancement in both tool-making and manner of life (true agriculture and animal husbandry).

The pre-pottery Neolithic started around 10,000-10,500 BC and the "B" phase around 7500 BC. It is in about the right time and place for Adam's clan after they were expelled from the Garden of Eden according to the Christ-centered model described in "Early Genesis, the Revealed Cosmology". It is a two-population model which moves Adam from "Father of the Human Race" to his more biblical role of "figure of Christ" (Romans 5:14). There were already humans here when Adam was specially formed by God to bring line of Messiah into the world. This model posits that the plants and animals the LORD God provided in the garden were meant to "jump start" civilization by making Adam a "domestic man" at the right time- when humanity was able to adopt such a lifestyle. This culture is associated with the rise of true farming and animal domestication.

The other possibility is that Adam and Eve and the animals formed for them in the garden to "jump start" domestic living were introduced a bit after the start of the Pre-pottery Neolithic A" and were responsible for the "Pre-pottery Neolithic B" which saw an increased use of farming and domestic animals. In other words, once there was a place ready for farming (because they were already sedentary and harvesting wild grains anyway) the Lord God picked that as the spot to jump-start true civilized living and introduce the line which would produce Messiah into the world. There is a lot more evidence that needs to be gathered, but so far it amazes me how the cite from the paper above fits with what I wrote in "Early Genesis, the Revealed Cosmology."

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