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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Civilization
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 12:49:49 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2024 00:06:33 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> You might say civilization was alive and well in
>> contemporary Europe, but it was vanishing in the Americas about a
>> millennium ago.
> 
> Civilization originated in Mesopotamia. I have a book in my shelf on a 
> generalist introduction to the archaeology of the earliest civilizations, 
> and it has a specific set of features that a society has to have to be 
> classed as a “civilization”:
> 
>   * Urbanization
>   * Division of labour
>   * Metalworking
>   * Writing
> 

There are exceptions to all of these. For example, the Inca didn’t have
writing.

-- 
Pete