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Re:Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-proces... by EmilioMartinez on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:36AM (#26610271)
>It completely destroyed the anglo-centric epochism I was taught in school.

Could you elaborate on the worldview you were taught?

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Re:Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-proces... by alexeldeib on Sunday March 28, 2021 @02:07PM (#26612626)
Not OP, but it sounds like a criticism of the Stone/Bronze/Iron age distinctions, which are themselves very Anglocentric in origin.
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Re:Bronze Age mining sites received deliveries of pre-proces... by fsckboy on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:23AM (#26643805)
um, no.

There is nothing centered on England about (with open admiration) naming periods (from before the Angles even migrated to Brittania) of histories of other peoples in the Mediterranean region by their sequential metallurgical discoveries.

i'm flabbergasted.

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