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The Origins of Civilisation

The Ancients

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Possibly Social Inequality Before the Mid Holloscene

Ina forgot to mention something else about som here. There are two other burials besides somhere. One the other two individuals seemed to be adolescents. They were buried in this very unusual fashion, head to head. Both lying in one sort of cardinal direction. These two individuals are very young and also appeared to have vast amounts of wealth beads associated with them. It probably would have taken hundreds of hours to manufacture and produce these beads. But if you imagine how many animals might have been involved, how difficult in challenging i woud ave been to procure all this material and then to bury this wealth,. This was happening 15 thousand years ago. I something like 15000 years ago.

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