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I'm currently reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, a book about the rise of civilization explained by their ecological starting points. It's interesting how much lu
by k__ 6y ago
I'm currently reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, a book about the rise of civilization explained by their ecological starting points.
It's interesting how much luck people from Mediterranean had with all the crops and animals they could domesticate thousands of years before the humans in other places.
In light of what I read, we can only hope that we will belong to the first who will colonize the galaxy.
- Herodotus38 6y agoI have wondered about one of the premises of that book, the lack of animals that could be domesticated in the Americas, it may have been that the opportunity to domesticate them was lost after a certain amount of time passed and they went extinct due to hunting or climate changes. Recently there has been found in Brazil huge amounts of rock art from prehistoric Ice age civilization, that showed that they drew pictures of ice age horses and a now extinct camelid species called a paleolama. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chap...
- k__ 6y agoThe book mentioned something about humans hunting potentially domesticatable animals too extinction around the time of the ice age. The climate wasn't good enough for agriculture yet, so people had to rely more on hunting and gathering.