Some of the Earliest Cities...

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"Early walls in cities were also used to enclose small groupings of homes rather than the entire settlement. Perhaps these internal walls were used to separate powerful groups from everyone else. Or maybe they were more like neighborhood boundaries that kept people from wandering into the pottery-makers' quarter and messing things up. Either way, it seems that the city wall began as a way to separate "us" from "them" socially, and evolved later into a way to prevent our enemies from laying waste to our homes." Annalee Newitz It appears that walled cities weren't created to protect them from attack from the outside. This makes sense since they appear on the archaeological scene before large scaled mass warfare takes place (they show up on the scene around 9,000 BC while massed warfare shows up circa 3,000 BC). Some of the earliest ones show up in Anatolia which is modern day Turkey. As the mention above in the quote it appears that such walling off is some of the earliest evidence in architecture of social stratification. You may recognize it by its modern descendant of gated communities. This happening in Anatolia circa 4000 BC was one of the many factors that set up the conditions for the Aegean Event to take place. #Anatolia #Makka #AegeanEvent #ScienceOfSelf

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