Recent discoveries suggest a crucial cluster of biological & cultural innovations, probably in the millennia around 20,000 BP, and roughly in the southeast Asian region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers. Among these were domestic dogs, vermin rats, and pottery.
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Long-term coastal settlements may have resembled those much later documented by travelers & ethnologists, for example the Nivkh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivkh_people … the Kwakwakaʼwakw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw … and the Yurok https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/conflict-and-collectibles-among-yurok_87.html …
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One must be cautious about the documented observations, however, since, especially in the case of the Kwakwakaʼwakw, they were often made after their cultures had been severely disrupted by European contact.
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ht to the polymath Tim May for pointing out to me the likely importance of coastal villages as technological leaders during the millennia leading up to the dawn of agriculture.
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Obviously a clear line can be drawn between this ancient cluster (dogs, vermin, pottery) and the equivalent modern cluster (public blockchains, nation states, cryptography).
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