Civilization One - Alan Butler, Christopher Knight

In my everlasting quest to find the true roots of rise to power I read many books that cover the same territory, once you push back into the darkest shadows of our earliest times, there is only so much you can find to discuss. Urbanization, global politics, industrial power, economics and even warfare are relatively modern phenomena's and as such leaves a lot less to be discussed as we search for mans beginnings. Also the further back in time that ...
...found to work with. The passage of time, weathering, the temporal nature of the materials used and even mans own subsequent activities means that any major additions to the archaeological record are very unlikely. So if there is only a limited amount of tools to work with, how is it that books looking to re-position in time mans personal genesis seem to be hitting the bookshops almost weekly? The reason seems to be that although everyone one is working ...

steerpyke 15.04.2006 · Read full review
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