InKend
Info on popular culture and everyday life
InKend
Info on popular culture and everyday life
Before Mohenjo-daro or Harappa, there was Mehrgarh: a 9,000-year-old village in Pakistan where people first farmed, made pottery, worked copper, and even practiced dentistry.
On a river plain in Tajikistan, people were smelting copper and trading lapis lazuli across a continent six thousand years ago. Meet Sarazm, one of Central Asia’s oldest towns.
In the Louisiana lowlands, hunter-gatherers with no farming raised six giant concentric ridges and a huge bird-shaped mound over 3,000 years ago. Meet Poverty Point, a monument that rewrites the story of early civilisation.
On the desert coast of Peru stands a temple whose walls are lined with hundreds of carved stones showing marching warriors and their dismembered victims. Meet Cerro Sechin, one of the oldest and most haunting monuments in the Americas.
On the plains of Ukraine, 6,000 years ago, people built planned towns of thousands, made dazzling painted pottery, and burned their whole settlements to the ground every few generations. Meet Cucuteni-Trypillia.
