>What makes me wonder is that why did these hills survive, and why are we not finding similar things in north Africa and other civilization cradles.
In my honest, personally informed opinion, there is much to be said for ignorance of the subject - and I don't mean you personally, just generally - at large - human cultures have a very intractable level of mystery, among our languages and human history, as a whole.
In anticipation of this fact, I personally invest myself in certain mysteries. The Tepe civilisation is one - but the things to be learned at Narwala Gabarnmang, are .. personally, I admit .. astonishing.
We do in fact have tens of thousands of years of human history to comprehend.
The issue is, we rapidly discard a lot of it in the rush to preserve just a bit of it.
In my honest, personally informed opinion, there is much to be said for ignorance of the subject - and I don't mean you personally, just generally - at large - human cultures have a very intractable level of mystery, among our languages and human history, as a whole.
In anticipation of this fact, I personally invest myself in certain mysteries. The Tepe civilisation is one - but the things to be learned at Narwala Gabarnmang, are .. personally, I admit .. astonishing.
We do in fact have tens of thousands of years of human history to comprehend.
The issue is, we rapidly discard a lot of it in the rush to preserve just a bit of it.