51 sats \ 9 replies \ @Natalia 6 Jun \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
and I can't understand why human civilizations started around this area, so hot and dry, no sea around too. 🥵
To do with the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture and settled society. As you saw they were symbolic sites of meeting and huge cultural power - you don’t necessarily want that in your own backyard but somewhere neutral and where everyone can access.
Having said that the climate was more temperate in that region 10,000 years ago (during the Mesolithic) and subsequent users could have been driven or moved out and it no longer had relevance in their lives. No culture lasts forever… but their monuments might.
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I hadn't read your comment, I just said the same thing but with fewer words.
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No need to waste words like me :D
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There is evidence that the climate and environment was not as it is today in these parts of the world
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Of course. And add in the use of animals, block & tackle and primitive winches.
‘Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.’
Archimedes