{4096-year Cycles (2)}[24th September 1990]

[Redbook7:330-331][19900924:1315]{4096-year Cycles (2)}[24th September 1990]

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**/(9000?) c\8000[bce]	Climatic changes at end of Pleistocene Age; Start of move to agriculture
c7000[bce]	Farming villages
(Neolithic	Revolution)
c6000bce	First agricultural societies (“complete regional cultural sequences” of village-farming) replacing hunter-gatherers (Also first known use of (copper) (metals) (c6500bce)
***c4500bce	Threshold of urban civilisation; end of pre-history
***By c4000bce	1st towns – southern Mesopotamia
#Pre-c3000bce	Bronze first used (eg in Greece); 1st logo-syllabic writing ((c3000)****
#c2000bceff	Spread of use of bronze; (ff 1st (consonant) alphabets)
#c1000bce	Start of Iron Age; 1st true alphabet (Greek)

It may be possible to see at least tentatively the basic structure of cycles in the history and immediate history of ‘modern’ (ie agricultural-industrial,#* or perhaps we should say Technological) Man.

Most significantly, the beginning of agriculture – if this is at all accurate#** – gives us a c8192-year cycle to 2048 (from c6144bce) (We are not likely to trace back a longer ‘historical’ cycle than this, for Mankind).

That c8192 year cycle tends to validate c2048bce as marking the beginning of the general Bronze Age, although that is still a speculative notion.#***

*[[Redbook7:309][19900918:1040b]{4096-year Cycles (1)}[18th September 1990] →]

**E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] 16:932; 26:47,51,52[;] (BUT 26:45)

***E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] 26:52

****c3500bceff 1^st good evidence for writing (E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] 78:947) <900926>

#{& see [[Redbook7:345][19900930:1108]{4096-year Cycles (3)}[30th September 1990],] 345}

#*ie in ‘Civil’ Societies (per E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] 16:932)

#**IT ISN’T – see below [next entry, fn=** & fn=***] – so ignore this.

#***(Clearly it is rather arbitrary to choose the beginning of agriculture – critical though that is – but only the spread of bronze)

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