Is There a Middle Ground Between Druidism and Hunter Gatherer Society?

There were two million years of just hunter gatherir cultures before the first civilizations emerged after the ice age. All we know is that the first records, or first traces of things dating, our first written records, date from about five thousand years ago. The first cities that archaeologists have discovered and paid any attention to m date from t ninth, eight to nine thousand years ago,. i'm right about the time that the the chaos at the end of the last ice age was finally mellowing out.