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The first sign of civilization in a culture
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I was gonna say, members of a group caring for one another is a sign of a social species. Like, we have a sample size of one species becoming "civilized" but I can't imagine a civilization developing in a species that isn't social. But there are plenty of present and historical examples of this kind of social behavior without civilization.
Damn fake... universities? https://divinity.yale.edu/news/15000-year-old-bone-and-fall-2013-issue-reflections
Also doesn't make sense as there are animals that take care of the injured while they heal. Evidence has even been found of Smilodons (Sabre tooth cats) doing this.
Shame that you were blindly downvoted. This place isn't going to be any different than reddit if people bring these same issues with blind circlejerking over here.
Old habits are hard to give up, and circlejerking is one of the worst it seems.
The author is challenging the attribution to Mead, as well as the definition of civilization that is used. They concede only a few paragraphs down that there are many cases of healed fractures found by anthropologists which imply that people took care of one another, as well as there having been interpersonal violence.
I wouldn't say that the entire thing is false just because it's been turned into a falsely attributed quote.