Discovered this map online and thought I'd share it. I find it fascinating and kind of hypnotizing. Shows the spread of urbanization from the beginning of civilization to current times. Helps us put civilization into perspective.
Awesome. As the site itself notes, there's uncertainty about whether cities may have arisen in other parts of the world beyond those depicted, whose existence is more clearly established, but still very cool.
This is the sort of thing that would have to be updated every 5 - 10 years just to keep up with new discoveries. On first glance, it doesn't show some very early cities like Catal Huyuk that were founded as agricultural centers and then temporarily abandoned after the Lake Ojibwey event around 6200 BCE. Also the cities in the coastal area of southern Peru, the Taklamakhan concentration in central Asia, the pre-Roman Celtic cities in Gaul or the urban centers being Lidared out of the jungles in southeast Asia and central America... But some of these 'new old cities' discoveries are only about a year old - you literals cannot keep up!
This is the sort of thing that would have to be updated every 5 - 10 years just to keep up with new discoveries. On first glance, it doesn't show some very early cities like Catal Huyuk that were founded as agricultural centers and then temporarily abandoned after the Lake Ojibwey event around 6200 BCE. Also the cities in the coastal area of southern Peru, the Taklamakhan concentration in central Asia, the pre-Roman Celtic cities in Gaul or the urban centers being Lidared out of the jungles in southeast Asia and central America... But some of these 'new old cities' discoveries are only about a year old - you literals cannot keep up!
I noticed because it was the first thing I looked for: the definition of 'city' having changed by several orders of magnitude in the last 4 - 8000 years!
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