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PeterH
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Re: Hardwired
Mar 09, 2006, 10:58
Without water, food and shelter you cannot survive. Without procreation you cannot continue. All else is secondary. Littlestone asked what was MOST important.

Religion, burial customs, art , status, wealth etc etc can only follow when the basic imperatives are secure. In all the talk about monuments, tombs, henges, Silbury and so on - the basic questions seldom get much attention:

Who were the workers and how many were required over how long to build X? Where did they live and how were they fed? What are the logistics? Priests, shamans, rock artists - call them what you will - could only do their business on the backs of the working community. In practical terms, they could be seen as parasitic. How much time, energy, food and lives were spent in building extravagant tombs and pointless pyramids in pursuit of a death cult? Still - the alternative would probably have been making war.
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