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Re:The Hedonic Treadmill by sliverstorm on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:39PM (#11535659)
10,000 years ago suggests Mesopotamia. My weak history knowledge suggests that was the only thing closed to a civilization in that era.
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Re:The Hedonic Treadmill by Govannon on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @02:22PM (#11536549)
Mesopotamia would have had farming [0], but if you consider the requirements just a group of people, I think there were settlements of sorts back well into the paleolithic. but not kings-with-castles-and-princesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution

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Re:The Hedonic Treadmill by erroneousfunk on Thursday April 21, 2016 @09:53AM (#11542112)
Yes, Sumeria and Mesopotamia is basically the oldest recorded history we have, but this way predates what we know about that. The author is talking about what we know from archaeological evidence, not recorded history.
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