I was talking about how ‘civilisation’ can and is defined within the fields of anthropology. — I like sushi

I am not familiar with "the fields of anthropology", so no comment.

It’s a bit like the ‘all swans are white’ point. We cannot state something with such certainty when there is scant evidence/history. — I like sushi

I do not know how scant our evidence is.

Fair enough. We have no written records to go off so archeological evidence is pretty much all the hard evidence we have. Various artifacts and sites cannot really divulge much about how people lived, but they can suggest many different things.

One common occurance throughout the history of interpreting artifacts is that we constantly make biased assumptions - usually because we assume certain things we do now as 'the norm'.

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