Fortification and State Formation (Repost)
City walls at the dawn of civilization
Originally posted in January 2022, when I had 40 subscribers.
A coherent culture began to emerge in the Almeria region of southeastern Spain around 3,500 BC. The Chalcolithic, or Copper Age, had arrived, and rich deposits of the metal were available here. Climatology tells us the region was also wetter at the time, s…
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