As a graduate of UCD who majored in Anthropology (Archaeology emphasis)(note that Archaeology isn’t a separate degree at UCD, so your degree says Anthropology), I find this fascinating. What is even more fascinating is how I actually made it through the program being a conservative and a Christian.
They had iron and bronze. Iron was used for working the land, but they put just as much investment into bronze, which were things of adornment.”
Actually their bronze technology was highly advanced
and was used to make many plows and tools.
They could treat bronze to make it hard and keep
a fair edge too.
I’m an iron man but there is stuff about bronze metal
working we know little about.
We’re always surprised to hear that ancient civilizations had an “incredibly sophisticated understanding” of anything. Yet if one has a biblical worldview it makes sense. Adam was perfect when he was created as his genes were not yet marred by sin. Subsequent generations would have had less time to be affected and also would have been smarter, stronger, faster, etc. than we are today.
But, the academic world consistently rejects the history presented in the bible and will always be annoyingly surprised at how advanced ancient civilizations were.
What’s crazy about the past is how incredibly small the world population was back then and it took forever to grow. Back in the time of Christ there were less people in the entire world than the total population of the USA right now. And it took almost 1800 years to reach a billion. Now we add a billion in seemingly the blink of an eye, every 10 years I think it is. 30 more years we will hit 10 billion.
Cant we just clone them like in sci-fi movies?
In AI they recreated an adult dead person, as an adult, no childhood.
Or you could work in rural Africa or Asia and talk to the elders on how they lived in the good old days. Of course, nowadays they have cellphones so you could just text their grand kids and ask questions.
So is Obama, by setting us back a few centuries.
Great topic.
When these comparisons are made, we should start with the number of millennia it took to domesticate animals, grow crops, create tools, speech and writing communications.
I believe early discoveries of metal, clay and other materials were originally accidental, followed by a natural curiosity and ultimately became more sophisticated. It would have taken several thousand years. What is fascinating are the parallel developments throughout the world by tribes who had no knowledge of each other’s existence.