This text is adapted from Michael Hudson’s foreword to At the Origins of Politics by Giorgio Buccellati, and this excerpt was produced by Human ...

They napped flints to make spear points and cutting tools, and wove plant fibers to ... But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized as a measure of valuation, simultaneously ...

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Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution ...

Most people today have never made a stone tool but almost all of us will have ... The earliest record of a wheeled vehicle dates from Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), in 2,500BC.