Posted on 09/26/2019 12:23:24 PM PDT by Openurmind
The excavation of a Stone Age community center in Ukraine is helping explain why large groups of tens of thousands of people flourished and then fell more than 5,000 years ago.
The "megastructure" excavated in Ukraine was large compared with the houses around it, though not particularly huge by modern standards. At 2,045 square feet (190 square meters), the structure was the size of a modest American home. However, some Eastern European megastructures were up to 18,000 square feet (1,680 square m) in size. Archaeologists have puzzled over these buildings, many of which have been discovered through methods that use magnetic anomalies in the soil to detect ancient structures. Now, the actual excavation of this one megastructure at a site called Maidanetske reveals that these buildings were used for everyday activities, like food preparation, storage and meals.
"It is similar to activities performed in normal houses," said Robert Hofmann, an archaeologist at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, who led the new research. "Somehow the intensity of these activities between normal houses and these megastructures is completely different."
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Liberty is the true wealth and even if you like comfort and money (which aren’t always bad) you will lose both if you sell your liberty.
On the other end of things you have the anarchists who think that you can keep your liberty without any collective cooperation or with group sizes too small to survive against larger enemies.
Balance in all things is key.
“I wonder if that might indicate a defensive need due to larger than usual bands of raiders?”
That’s probably how it started and that would have been a good thing.
But somebody probably noticed that their position as the leader was vastly improved by the centralization and decided to take it farther and farther until it didn’t work and caused a collapse.
I have traded the ball and chain of the mansion for the liberty and freedom of a tent...
Or, they got bedbugs and decided to move.
It’s probably your Injun blood making you desire to live in a teepee.
lol, oh yeah... And there is that... :)
But seriously, the electric bill is much less, in fact non-existent. :)
There are almost no natural defensive barriers on the plains of Ukraine.
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