• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    The Neolithic population crash in northern Europe occurred from about 3300BC to 2900BC. By that time, cities and sophisticated civilisations had already arisen in places such as Egypt and Mesopotamia. [emphasis added]

    I will recommend a good book that I’m currently reading: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

    It’s largely about the possibility of The Sea Peoples as the primary force for multiple civilizational collapses, but the author does a pretty good job of pointing out how little or no evidence really exists in many of the cases discussed. It’s giving me a lot more perspective about the type of cultural sharing that was going on around the Mediterranean at that time.