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    A proto-city is a large, dense Neolithic settlement that is largely distinguished from a city by its lack of planning and centralized rule. While the...
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  • estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people...
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  • characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words (for an explanation of the notation, see Proto-Indo-European phonology). Without proper...
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    most important city in what would become Elam. These tokens continued to be used, even after the development of proto-cuneiform and Proto-Elamite. A single...
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    Neolithic, the most recent era of the Stone Age, and were part of an early proto-city. The tower highlights the importance of Jericho for the understanding...
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    long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500...
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  • Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets. Cottage industries...
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    were as large as 200 hectares, somewhat less than one square mile. This proto-city is just one of 2,440 Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements discovered so far...
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  • Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement. A retrospective label, the musicians involved...
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  • Sociocultural evolution List of oldest continuously inhabited cities Cities of the ancient Near East Proto-city Childe, Vere Gordon (1936). Man Makes Himself. London:...
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    Defensive wall (redirect from City wall)
    necessity for every city. Uruk in ancient Sumer (Mesopotamia) is one of the world's oldest known walled cities. Before that, the proto-city of Jericho in the...
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    part one of the few Ubaid villages in Upper Mesopotamia which became a proto-city. Others include Ugarit, Brak, Hamoukar, Arbela, Alep, and regionally Susa...
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  • Wales) and Pod Works. Since its first event in Jan 2007, Proto.in has had 8 editions across the cities of Chennai, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune. The...
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    archaeological site, was considered to be the oldest inhabited town, or proto-city, that existed from around 7500 BC. Inscribed as a World Heritage Site...
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  • Proto-Somalis were the ancient people and ancestors of Somalis who lived in present-day Somalia. Literature on proto-Somalis largely uses a time-frame...
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    characters used to write reconstructed Proto-Indo-European words (for an explanation of the notation, see Proto-Indo-European phonology). Without proper...
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  • smelting was not foreign. It became mature about 1500 BC. Arsenical bronze Proto-city Chalcolithic (English: /ˌkælkəˈlɪθɪk/; from Greek: χαλκός khalkós, "copper"...
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    example of anarcho-communism, and so an example of primitive communism in a proto-city. It has been argued that the Indus Valley civilisation is an example of...
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    Tell es-Sultan (category Hebrew Bible cities)
    8500–7500 BCE) saw the emergence of one of the world's first major proto-cities. As the world warmed up, a new culture based on agriculture and sedentary...
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    The term proto-orthodox Christianity or proto-orthodoxy describes the early Christian movement that was the precursor of Christian orthodoxy. Older literature...
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    settlement was for the time very large, covering an area of 180 hectares. This proto-city are just one of 2440 Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements discovered so far...
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    Quasi-state (redirect from Proto state)
    quasi-state (sometimes referred to as a state-like entity or formatively a proto-state) is a political entity that does not represent a fully autonomous...
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    Neolithic tomb Original affluent society Surplus product Göbekli Tepe Proto-city Taiz, Lincoln. "Agriculture, plant physiology, and human population growth:...
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    The Proto-Elamite period, also known as Susa III, is a chronological era in the ancient history of the area of Elam, dating from c. 3100 BC to 2700 BC...
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    Closed City in Siberia". TheProtoCity.com. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 2020-02-10. Ramirez-de-la-Piscina Armendariz, Eneko (2014). "FORMER CLOSED CITIES IN THE...
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    complex societies organized by an elite or at least achieving corporate, proto-city state form. One of these settlements was Manika, located in Euboea, dated...
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    The Proto-Elamite script is an early Bronze Age writing system briefly in use before the introduction of Elamite cuneiform. There are many similarities...
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  • Proto-Yeniseian or Proto-Yeniseic is the unattested reconstructed proto-language from which all Yeniseian languages are thought to descend from. It is...
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    acknowledged here. Some of the main types of sites include early proto-city and proto city-states, settlements, temples and sanctuaries of worship and cave...
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    millennium. Çatalhöyük (see image) was a large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia which flourished from c. 7500 BC until...
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