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I don't think it's about right or wrong. It's the way I see it after many tens of thousands of pages read on the subject of archaeology and ancient history. This idea that I have that the geometry of human relations is scale invariant is not a scientific, falsifiable proposition. That's why I said you might disagree and I don't think I would be able to argue that it is correct. But it has been useful for me in interpreting data, like I said. It just comes across as a very clear pattern. The knowledge we have about ancient Sumer, Akkadians, Elamites, Egyptions, Phoenicians, Hittites, Greeks, Romans and Carthaginians, Byzantines, Franks, etc etc, all the way through to WWI and WWII, Cold War and so forth, about the dynamics of warfare, of state organization, politics, social hierarchies, economic behavior, it all comes together as the very same patterns we can see across millennia. But it all comes to me as intuition behind a LOT of reading I've done and I haven't made any effort to systematize it because I haven't needed to. |