The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago

Post by monadic2 » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 2:09 AM UTC

dtwest wrote: post #96

monadic2 wrote: post #83

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Edit: downvoting this without a response is pretty much against the guidelines, I am hardly distracting from the conversation here, and the downvote is not a "disagree" button. I put in a lot of effort to showing you why you have a shallow understanding of the topic; I'm open to being wrong. Xenophobia and racism are completely separate concepts, although xenophobia does underly racism. It's entirely possible to cons…

Why is the Gates Foundation a foreign "charity"? What does that mean / what do the quotes imply? I didn't downvote, but I'm not really following what you're saying.

Post by AlotOfReading » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 2:19 AM UTC

akkartik wrote: post #106

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The work of archaeologists is absolutely not in proportion to the amount of surviving documents. Most of my digs have been in places and periods with few to no written records, for example. As for the comment about Europeans, I was talking about modern academics (particularly of the early through late 20th century). The leading archaeologists of that period primarily came from European and American traditions. I have…

Wonderful to see an archeologist here!

Post by earthboundkid » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 2:58 AM UTC

Natsu wrote: post #108

legerdemain wrote: post #97

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Look, this is just childish equivocation. A lot of words that are considered offensive also have (or used to have) other, innocuous meanings. What you're doing is like a child saying "Nah-uh, this word just means happy !" A word is offensive in polite society because a population of people finds it hurtful, or because another population of people uses it in an intentionally hurtful way. Usually it's both. Innocent wo…

This is just the euphamism treadmill in action. The name for an outgroup becomes a slur over time because it refers to an outgroup.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 3:53 AM UTC

dayofthedaleks wrote: post #5

Cactus2018 wrote: post #2

Recommend sources for human culture/civilization history from 10,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C.? Most of the top search results and Wikipedia entries tap out on cultures prior to ~5,000-~3,000 B.C. Of course there are stand alone pages such as Neolithic_founder_crops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture Chalocolithic Period https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcolithic

I enjoyed 'After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC' by Steven Mithen https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019997

Post by thaumasiotes » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 4:11 AM UTC

rsynnott wrote: post #84

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> in the popular imagination, there was nothing except Greece, Rome and Egypt until this side of 1 AD. Really? The Romans are known for their expansionism. Who were they conquering? Who was everybody fighting against in 300 ?

Barbarians! Tribes! People in some way not civilized! (This was, in fairness, largely how the Romans represented it to themselves, regardless of how true it was, so it's maybe not surprising.)