The Roots of Civilization
There is a vast, under-appreciated stretch of history between the final days of the ice age and the rise of the first historically documented societies. These entries are devoted to the gardeners, mariners, philosophers, and tinkerers of that period who laid the basis for everything we think of as civilization.
The Great Explorers, 7500-4500 BC
Fairy-Tale Kingdoms, 4500-2500 BC
- How We Got So Pretty
- Searching for Once Upon a Time
- Civilization beyond Civilization, Part I
- Civilization beyond Civilization, Part II: The Aristo Factor
- The Efflux of Osiris
- On the Antiquity of Fairy Tales












