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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Thought2: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by rasol: [b] Thought Posts: [URL=http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~e118/publications/Brooks-BeyondCollapse-abs.pdf]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~e118/publications/Brooks-BeyondCollapse-abs.pdf[/URL] [/b][/QUOTE] Thought Writes: The important thing about this study is that it demonstrates the flaws in the "agricultural revolution" theory as espoused by Gordan Childe. Childe argued that agriculture and animal husbandry led to sedentism and sedentism led to an urban revolution. This urban revolution in turn led to social complexity or "civilization". Of course we now know that some groups like Africans in Early Khartoum have been sedentary since the early Holocene but did not develop hierarchical complex political structures. Likewise central and northern Europeans practiced village based agriculture earlier than Africans outside the Nile Valley, yet they NEVER developed hierarchical complex political structures they simply received these structures from Rome. Populations in the Saharan Neolithic practiced a semi-sedentary wild grain using transhumance based lifestyle, yet they also developed hierarchical complex political structures as evidenced by the burial of elites throughout the Sahara. This political substructure was infused and elaborated on in Ancient Egypt. The key seems to be economies based upon agriculture and/or animal husbandry effected by extreme environmental constraints. Agriculture and/or animal husbandry produce unequal wealth accumulation. Environmental stress adds hierarchical complexity to this economic and political structure. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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