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Anon is an anthropologist (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] bricklove@midwest.social 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A lot of the comments are talking about writing being the game changer but it took generations of selective breeding crops and livestock to make them viable for domestication. We haven't found any evidence of domestication prior to about 12k years ago in archeology or genetics. There were many civilizations who built large cities and never needed a writing system.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

I think it was A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry that pointed out, some of the oldest cities with any surviving architecture had stone walls ten feet thick. You don't start with ten-foot-thick walls. You work your way up to that.

A lot of what should be civilized history is just fuckin' gone.