tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post7713085094320064889..comments2024-03-08T11:20:30.095-07:00Comments on Credit Bubble Stocks: Books Read - Q4 2019Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-89761376281788461382020-01-07T17:02:33.221-07:002020-01-07T17:02:33.221-07:00Speaking of the baidarka skin boats, from James C ...Speaking of the baidarka skin boats, from James C Scott / Against the Grain:<br /><br /><i>"That states would have come to dominate the archaeological and historical record is no mystery... A great deal of archaeology and history throughout the world is state-sponsored and often amounts to a narcissistic exercise in self-portraiture. Compounding this institutional bias is the archaeological tradition [...] of excavation and analysis of major historical ruins. Thus if you built, monumentally, in stone and left your debris conveniently in a single place, you were likely to be "discovered" and dominate the pages of history. If, on the other hands, you built with wood, bamboo, or reeds, you were much less likely to appear in the archaeological record. And <b>if you were hunter-gatherers or nomads, however numerous, spreading your biodegrade able trash thinly across the landscape, you were likely to vanish entirely from the archaeological record."</b></i>CPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12701174164478027499noreply@blogger.com