Future Timeline

I love dwelling on this topic of imagining human life in the past, especially en masse.

The further back you go, the more interesting it becomes to me. Circa 2000 BCE, large-scale civilization was still historically "new," being an innovation that dated back maybe one thousand years (possibly more if the archaeological record gets proven as too incomplete to be useful). Most humans lived either a horticultural, small-scale agricultural, or hunter-gatherer way of life.

Crazy to think these sites, circa 7000 BC, would have been enormous for their time and yet still held fewer people than a modern city block.

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