Gold and electrum rings from the Nahal Qanah Cave (Israël) late fifth millennium BC. Money?pic.twitter.com/ch9YbUkW8V
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The thing with collectibles is that they were first made for reasons such as esthetics and religion. Gold ie was picked up from river beds coz humans saw the sun in it: eternal life. Later collectibles became exchanged and obtained an “economic” value.
All sorts of religious significance was imputed to them, but their core functions were display of wealth (and power, practically interchangeable in early societies), store of wealth, and media of wealth transfer. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/ https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/conflict-and-collectibles-among-yurok_87.html …
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Sorry I have no time now to read your posts - I will later. I doubt such things as “power” were high on the agenda in 6th millennium bc. Many ppl were egalitarian and mainly farming (spending little time on their specialisation).
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