The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
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The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
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Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#2Recommend 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
Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#3Recommend 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
Against the Grain by James Scott.
Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#4Recommend 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
Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#5Recommend 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
Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#6> I first learned of Sudan’s extraordinary pyramids as a boy, in the British historian Basil Davidson’s 1984 documentary series “Africa.”
This one seems to be on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X75COneJ4w8&list=PL6mz4AK-lT...
Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#7Recommend 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
Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#8Forgotten? Looks like looted Egyptian civilization to me.
Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#9Forgotten? Looks like looted Egyptian civilization to me.
There's a reply to sentiments like yours in the first few paragraphs of the article.
> For years, European and American historians and archaeologists viewed ancient Kush through the lens of their own prejudices and that of the times. In the early 20th century, the Harvard Egyptologist George Reisner, on viewing the ruins of the Nubian settlement of Kerma, declared the site an Egyptian outpost. “The native negroid race had never developed either its trade or any industry worthy of mention, and owed their cultural position to the Egyptian immigrants and to the imported Egyptian civilization,” he wrote in an October 1918 bulletin for Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It wasn’t until mid-century that sustained excavation and archaeology revealed the truth: Kerma, which dated to as early as 3000 B.C., was the first capital of a powerful indigenous kingdom that expanded to encompass the land between the first cataract of the Nile in the north and the fourth cataract in the south. The kingdom rivaled and at times overtook Egypt. This first Kushite kingdom traded in ivory, gold, bronze, ebony and slaves with neighboring states such as Egypt and ancient Punt, along the Red Sea to the east, and it became famous for its blue glazed pottery and finely polished, tulip-shaped red-brown ceramics.
Also, "looted"? How does one loot civilization? Did the West "loot" paper from China?
Re: The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
#10I was starting to worry that the author would omit one of the classic factoids on this topic: that there are more pyramids in what is now Sudan, than there are in what is now Egypt. And not by a small margin! (This is mentioned, pretty far into the article.)