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What caused the Late Bronze Age Collapse?
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feller
Jul 5, 2006


The worship of Inanna/Ishtar, which was prevalent in Mesopotamia could involve wild, frenzied dancing and bloody ritual celebrations of social and physical abnormality. It was believed that "nothing is prohibited to Inanna", and that by depicting transgressions of normal human social and physical limitations, including traditional gender definition, one could cross over from the "conscious everyday world into the trance world of spiritual ecstasy."

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feller
Jul 5, 2006


Atlantis was in what is now called Bolivia.

feller
Jul 5, 2006


basic hitler posted:

:qq: christians and jews wouldn't co-exist with a pagan state of lead drinking retards :qq:

Drinking lead is cool. You should try it

feller
Jul 5, 2006


Telsa Cola posted:

Eh, H/G societies actually end up having more leisure time if you actually look at the data available. Agriculture is insanely work heavy and if you are just starting out you need a food source for the first couple months before your crop comes in, not counting weeding, field maintenance and other poo poo. Then the grains need to be harvested, processed and stored before more processing for cooking. This is ignoring the other issues that come about from being sedentary.

One argument for societal complexity is that with a large food source from agriculture you need a way to distribute it or oversee its general storage which means you implement or develop new systems to do this. Also you maybe need a system to keep track of when the crops will grow best and for how long and that just adds more layers.

Several early writing systems were basically just record keeping systems likely because of this.

Maybe the average h/g has more leisure time than the average farmer, but the average farmer wasn’t the one writing or designing cool pyramids. Also there’s the whole offseason where you’re just eating from your stores that h/g didn’t really have did they?

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