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Civilization is triggered by humans learning to stay in one place, not by anything they invented there.

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  1. Ed Barnhart

    Archaeologist and director of the Maya Exploration Center

    For the vast majority of human existence, we’ve been nomadic and we’ve done these wider or tighter nomadic circles, depending on the geographic region, but they’d move. So once humans figured out how to stay in a place, that’s the initial trigger to what would become civilization.

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