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by nukem222 450 days ago
> We already know relatively little about Neolithic Europe despite there being major cities there that rivaled or eclipsed those in Mesopotamia in population.

What are you referring to? I could certainly imagine such a thing but I can't say I've ever heard of someone finding evidence of a city that matches this description.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Europe_(archaeology)

e.g. Maidanetske site could have had 20-40k inhabitants. Uruk possibly only reached that population centuries later.

But of course accurate estimates of this and other similar sites are very tricky.