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Anthropology

exboyfil

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4. I often wondered about this

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:16 PM

Mar 18

Also the question of why with a similar starting point, Europe/Africa/Asia developed the wheel and bronze/iron/steel. Guns, Germs, and Steel explores it to some degree (ability to migrate east-west vs. north-south). Also the fauna (horses, camels, and oxen) that could be used for transport were eaten before they could be domesticated.

Not a big fan of Graham Hancock but you do have to wonder about how first Egyptian constructions of pyramids occur around the same time frame as Caral in Peru.

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The Biggest Technological Development in Human History Happened All Across the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 18 OP

IDK, but a few thousand years doesn't sound like "at the same time". OAITW r.2.0 Mar 18 #1

no it really isn't. (and this is big, big, big !!) stopdiggin Mar 18 #3

100th monkey effect SheltieLover Mar 18 #2

I often wondered about this exboyfil Mar 18 #4

All based on the earliest evidence THAT WE KNOW OF -- potentially subject to revision every time a new dig is opened. eppur_se_muova Mar 18 #5

A professor once said that, given the changes agriculture brought about EverHopeful Mar 18 #6

"Tricked into it by plants." I agree. c-rational Mar 18 #7