When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot
Razib Khanrazibkhan.com
When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot
I had no idea how wild the story of human evolution was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.
Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically wiping everyone else out.
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Dwarkesh Patelx.comMost of human history is irreparably lost to us. Our species, Homo sapiens, has existed for at least 200,000 years, but for most of that time we have next to no idea what was happening.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Although I am primarily interested in examining the possible causes of the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations in this area, I also raise the question of what it was that the world lost at this pivotal moment, when the empires and kingdoms of the second millennium BC came crashing down. I am also interested in the extent to which civilization
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