Resumen de Civilisation's true dawn
By about 8,300 years ago, people in the Levant--modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories and parts of southern Anatolia--had the full package of Neolithic technologies: settled villages with communal buildings, pottery, domesticated animals, cereals and legumes. Art, politics and astronomy also have their roots this time. And yet here was a settlement more than 3,000 years older displaying many of those innovations, but lacking the technology that is supposed to have got the whole thing started: farming. The people who built Wadi Faynan were not nomads, but neither were they farmers. They probably relied almost exclusively on hunting and gathering. Here, Robsons discusses the reasons that drove ancestors to give up a lifestyle that had served them for millenia and invent a whole new one.
