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It's somewhat misleading to base the spread of humans on the age of cities. There were homo sapiens in Canberra, for example, for at least 20,000 years before E
by andy_gillette 6y ago
It's somewhat misleading to base the spread of humans on the age of cities. There were homo sapiens in Canberra, for example, for at least 20,000 years before Europeans came and built a city on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra#The_first_inhabitants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra#The_first_inhabitants
- lisper 6y agoGood point. I guess I should have said "modern technological civilization" or something like that rather than "homo sapiens", although MWC is not quite right either. What I was trying to get at was whatever quality it is in humans that moves them to build cities. Whatever that is, the humans in Canberra in 20000 BCE didn't have it. (That's not meant to be a value judgement, just an observation.)