Transportation networks—how accessible? how expensive?—are an important factor in the development of civilizations. Now it’s independent of communication (that is, the movement of information and ideas), and the perspective from today’s world, with the two separate, makes it more difficult to look back into the hazy deep-past to times when information only moved if people did.

This entry was posted in archaeology on Sunday, 4 August 2013 at 10:22 pm.
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