thataccount
6 hours ago
Strangely odd culture to pick a recipe from or dedicate a site to.
yubblegum
6 hours ago
Cradle of civilization is not an odd culture. Babylon, meaning Gate of God, is one of the more profoundly influential urban civilizational clusters in human history.
thataccount
5 hours ago
So they are calling Babylon the cradle of civilization now? Vicious, sure. Child-sacrificing, absolutely. Cradle? Urban? Maybe in hell.
ahazred8ta
an hour ago
To an archeologist, 'civilization' refers to builders of walled cities inhabited by non-farmers with complex social sructure, division of labor, and usually some form of taxation. Highly moral hunter gatherers living in mud huts are not a 'civilization' in this context. Now you know.
thataccount
12 minutes ago
>Highly moral hunter gatherers living in mud huts are not a 'civilization' in this context. Now you know.
Hmm. Then that sounds like large swaths of Africa are not civilizations today. Where might I find someone willing to put that down in a modern archaeological journal? After all, your definition ought to apply across the spectrum, right?