0025 Why is the previous hypothetical important?
Er… what is the previous hypothetical?
If the ancient recipe for transforming copper ore into copper metal starts in the Ubaid and if the recipe ends up making Otzi the Iceman’s axe, 2000 years later, in northern Italy, then this recipe is an indicator that irreversible cultural changesspread from the Ubaid to all of Eurasia.
0026 Are there other cultural productions that spread from the Ubaid to all Eurasia?
I am sure there is.
And, they are far more significant than the alchemic transformation of copper ore.
0027 Hill mentions that southern Mesopotamia is the location of one of the world’s first civilizations.
How about that?
0028 Does ‘something cultural’ potentiate the formation of civilization in southern Mesopotamia, then spread outwards to the rest of the world? Does this ‘cultural something’ then potentiate the formation of civilizations in nearby Nile and Indus river valleys?
I bet it does.