Sublime

And political scientist Daniel Elazar describes the great masses of Americans who “have begun to move from place to place within each [urban] belt…preserving a nomadic way of life that is urban without being permanently attached to any particular city…”

At places like Çatal Hüyük and Jericho, humans and their domesticated plants and animals became for the first time physically and psychologically separate from the life of untamed nature and the howling unknown.

Only a few Eneolithic steppe people wore the elaborate costumes of tusks, plaques, beads, and rings or carried the stone maces that symbolized power, but children were included in this exceptional group, suggesting that the rich animal loaners at least tried to see that their children inherited their status. Status competition between regional